Rationally Speaking #112 - Race: Just a Social Construct?
Rationally Speaking Podcast · NYC Skeptics
July 13, 201448m 21s
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Show Notes
In this episode, Julia and Massimo talk about the problems with "race" as a genetically-based concept. Starting with the controversial recent book "A Troublesome Inheritance," by NY Times science writer Nicholas Wade, they critique the statistical analyses that group people into racial categories, and Wade's (and others') attempts to attribute differences between rich and poor countries to innate racial differences.