{"id":58624,"date":"2019-07-30T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58624"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T17:22:53","slug":"if-anything-the-public-debate-around-race-and-science-has-sunk-into-the-mud-to-state-even-the-undeniable-fact-that-we-are-one-human-species-today-means-falling-afoul-of-a-cabal-of-conspiracy-theoris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58624","title":{"rendered":"If anything, the public debate around race and science has sunk into the mud. To state even the undeniable fact that we are one human species today means falling afoul of a cabal of conspiracy theorists."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If anything, the public debate around race and science has sunk into the mud. To state even the undeniable fact that we are one human species today means falling afoul of a cabal of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conspiracy_theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conspiracy theorists<\/a>. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race realists<\/a>,\u201d as they call themselves online, join the growing ranks of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_change_denial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change deniers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vaccine_hesitancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-vaxxers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_flat_Earth_societies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flat-earthers<\/a> in insisting that science is under the yoke of some grand master plan designed to pull the wool over everyone\u2019s eyes. In their case, a left-wing plot to promote racial equality when, as far as they\u2019re concerned, racial equality is impossible for biological reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Angela Saini, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience<\/a>,\u201d <em>Scientific American<\/em>, July 29. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/voices\/the-internet-is-a-cesspool-of-racist-pseudoscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/voices\/the-internet-is-a-cesspool-of-racist-pseudoscience\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anything, the public debate around race and science has sunk into the mud. To state even the undeniable fact that we are one human species today means falling afoul of a cabal of conspiracy theorists. The \u201crace realists,\u201d as they call themselves online, join the growing ranks of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29802,12622],"class_list":["post-58624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-angela-saini","tag-scientific-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58624","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=58624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58625,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58624\/revisions\/58625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}