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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] Great post Arwa. Arwa [QUOTE] If we fall into the trap of accepting the categories of stored data sets, then it can be an easy slide down the slope to the misconceptions of "black" or "white" diseases. By accepting the prefabricated racial designations of stored samples and then reporting patterns of differences in SNPs between those categories, misplaced genetic concreteness is nearly inevitable. The technology will be increasingly available to provide SNP profiles of populations. When the phenotype distinguishing these populations is race, the likelihood of committing the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, in science, is nearly overwhelming. For this reason, when geneticists report population data, they should always attach a caveat or warning label that could read something like this, "allelic frequencies vary between any selected human groups--to assume that those variations reflect 'racial categories' is unwarranted." Whereas this will not completely block the tendency to reify race, it will be an appropriately cautious intervention that tries to prevent science from unwittingly joining the current march toward a biological reinscription of the concept. [/QUOTE]This is fine rhectoric, but when you find 13 of the leading institutions in the world that study genetics claiming race exist it is hard to ignore their research. Again, as I stated earlier it is idealistic to believe that race is not reality in biology. These researchers did not try to avoid bringing in the race card. Everyday it is becoming increasingly clear that while some medicines are effective accross populations, many medicines are more effective for one population and not another. This makes it clear that race as a concept has merit and is a biological reality as noted by the authors of the study under discussion. Again great post Arwa it does show how environment can influence health, but it fails to counter the evidence that race has a biological reality. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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