{"id":50929,"date":"2016-12-26T21:32:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T21:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50929"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T23:52:42","slug":"the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50929","title":{"rendered":"The biggest mistake in the history of\u00a0science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-science-70575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The biggest mistake in the history of\u00a0science<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/columns\/darren-curnoe-2101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walking on two feet: Reflections on science and human origins<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrencurnoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Darren Curnoe<\/strong><\/a>, Chief Investigator and Co-Leader of Education and Engagement Program <em>ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage<\/em>, and Director, <em>Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre<\/em>, UNSW Australia<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-science-70575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/files\/150838\/width926\/image-20161219-24274-vycquw.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>The human faces of Asia. First published in the first edition (1876\u20131899) of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nordisk_familjebok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nordisk familjebok<\/em><\/a>. <em>Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Science is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind. It has been a source of inspiration and understanding, lifted the veil of ignorance and superstition, been a catalyst for social change and economic growth, and saved countless lives.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, history also shows us that its been a mixed blessing. Some discoveries have done far more harm than good. And there\u2019s one mistake you will never read about in those internet lists of the all-time biggest blunders of science.<\/p>\n<p>The worst error in the history of science was undoubtedly classifying humans into the different races&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-science-70575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind. It has been a source of inspiration and understanding, lifted the veil of ignorance and superstition, been a catalyst for social change and economic growth, and saved countless lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2039,8],"tags":[25876,5628],"class_list":["post-50929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-darren-curnoe","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54450,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929\/revisions\/54450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}