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SUMMARY:Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Hum
 an Biodiversity' movement - Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Econo
 mics)
DTSTART:20221103T153000Z
DTEND:20221103T170000Z
UID:TALK192110@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Jacob Stegenga
DESCRIPTION:The 'Human Biodiversity' movement is one of the more recent it
 erations of purported racial science. According to various websites that a
 re proponents of the movement\, the intellectual history includes a number
  of prognosticators and commentators (de Gobineau)\, established academics
  – both contemporary and historical – who have professed racist views 
 (Jensen\, Morton\, Spencer\, Rushton)\, philosophers (Kant\, Hegel\, Hume)
 \, contemporary writers (Wade\, D. Reich)\, historical figures central to 
 the Eugenicist movement (Sanger\, Fisher\, Galton)\, and contemporary popu
 lation biologists (Rosenberg\, N. Reich\, Burchard\, Pemberton).\n\nDirect
 ly after the release of Nicholas Wade's _A Troublesome Inheritance_ in 201
 4\, population geneticists\, biologists\, and biomedical researchers wrote
  "an open letter to the _New York Times_":https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/
 10/books/review/letters-a-troublesome-inheritance.html stating that 'We re
 ject Wade's implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They
  do not' and that they 'are in full agreement that there is no support fro
 m the field of population genetics for Wade's conjectures.' Included in th
 e signatories are Noah Rosenberg\, Elad Ziv\, David Reich\, Neil Risch\, H
 ua Teng\, Marcus Feldman\, and Trevor Pemberton\, amongst others.\n\nGiven
  the open letter and their clear denunciation of the book released by Wade
  (and presumably other future developments in that vein)\, it seems that t
 he furor should be over. This paper\, however\, argues otherwise. This pap
 er makes the argument that a number of population geneticists\, especially
  those listed above\, have done enough work in their own reputable academi
 c publications over the last two decades to provide fertile ground and aca
 demic justification for repugnant and racist views. This talk will provide
  evidence from a number of papers\, teaching materials\, and promotional m
 aterials for public and academic talks to argue that those population biol
 ogists and biomedical researchers are more than just neutral\, value-free 
 scientists whose work has been misappropriated. Rather\, they are\, throug
 h conceptual conflation and reification in their academic work\, have acti
 vely provided a foundation for what can now be understood as the most rece
 nt iteration of race science.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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