In her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science. She tells New Scientist that part of the reason she wrote the book was to understand our beliefs on race, and whether scientific beliefs have really moved on since the era of eugenics and the racialised scientific ideas that were popular before the second world war. Saini argues science, and society, has not moved on as much as we like to think. Racialised ideas about who we are still exist now, and we need to understand why.
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Source: Humans - newscientist.com
