THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE GENOME PROJECT AND MODERN ANTHROPOLOGISTS | 2010-07-17

The damage from Climategate has been stupendous. The whole foundation of our belief system has been based on Science hurrying to endorse anything Political Correctness needed.

I have a feeling that the release of the information about Neanderthal blood being in all but blacks has to do with it. The whole Genome Project consistently declaring that there was no difference between races was based on the same thing the Green Tyranny was based on: All Established Science backed Global Warming.

That makes life a lot easier. You just accept what Science says. And the establishment controls science. You do not need a Conspiracy to control Science. Any establishment routinely controls Science.

Competition for publication is fierce in academia, a matter of life and death. Competition for grants is also fierce. Everybody knows that.

So anything that will get you denied a grant or publication is automatically weeded out.

AT THE OUTSET.

This is obvious to anyone with the slightest experience in academia. There are lots of subjects for research, so you begin by weeding out the ones that are in touchy territory or if they begin to reach conclusions that could endanger your career.

This is routine. But people don't THINK about it.

The problem is that in the competition those rise to the top who are dedicated to the establishment's opinions. As Ben Franklin said, two people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Until the Obama campaign, people were able to deny liberal bias in the media. After all, it was the media who did the denying.

I did not know whether respectable conservatives would even mention Climategate, but they are doing so. They certainly do not hint that the race campaign in the Genome Project might contain such bias, but even some conservatives have started to question whether Official Science can be so blatantly partisan only on Global Warming.

Screwtape, Hell's Senior Tempter, pointed out in CS Lewis that "People are always talking about how we put ideas into people's heads. Our biggest job is to keep them OUT!"

The Genome Project is unlike any other scientific project in that we constantly hear about it. But all we ever hear about it is when they find something that seems to confirm Political Correctness.

Bill Clinton announced that the Genome Project had proved that human beings were all "99.999 percent the same." This is now in the category of "I never had sex with that woman."

A person who has a fatal melanoma is 99.99 percent healthy.

I have NEVER heard two official scientists give the same figure for the percent humans have in common with chimpanzees.

And until Climategate, I never heard anyone announce that one race has genes others do not.

In 1950, in reaction to Hitler, the Science Line was that "Modern anthropology has proven that all races are the same in innate abilities." It was a LONG fight before the other side just gave up on proving innate racial IQs are the same, some forty or fifty years.

The Genome Project is the "modern anthropologists" of our day. But information was hard to get out back then.

The Established Foundation of "Modern" Science is already shaken.

COMMENTS (4)

#1 backbaygrouch | 2010-07-17 06:22

In politically sensitive areas the modus operandi for scientists is: Figures lie because liars figure.

#2 BGLass | 2010-07-17 10:15

I know some children of academics. We --myself and them--always thought it was weird that their folks would decide to grow their economic class over the futures of their own children.

Somewhere around 2000, The New Yorker ran a story about a white child of academics who'd been corresponding with a black death row inmate at her parents' urging for about ten years (she was encouraged to begin this practice when she was about 12). The article talked about how much she'd learned, that "black killers were really people, too, and had much life wisdom to dispense," and so on. And while perhaps that was true --such a killer could probably say a wise-sounding thing or two--- no one questioned why the parents did NOT acknowledge that upstanding white law abiders could have just as much wisdom as well, which might be a better exposure for their daughter on so many levels, and so on.

And this-- among a set of people who live by "exposures." B/c we're a "tabula rasa" and the environment shapes us, (if you really believe this), then why pick killers as friends for your 12 year old?

At any rate--- the academics were watching their careers. This is the IDEA they are to pander in their classes, and for which they get salaries and grants and publications. They chose social position and money over their daughter, and the right not to be publicly vilified or ostracized. That, or they feel they are making a place for her in the world order, as the child was raised appropriately anti-white, so she will fit in the system (and earn a living as the academic parents did).

White grant getters cannot imagine a world beyond that in which they live, where they could work for money AND protect their children, too, it seems.

Their lack of imagination needs to be addressed.

#3 winterwolf70 | 2010-07-17 11:29

Once upon a time the religious oppressed scientific progress, but now it seems that the religion of political correctness has taken over the duties that were once the pervue of the church.

I'd imagine that the rally call for science workers now ought to be "heliocentrism now!".

#4 Simmons | 2010-07-17 11:38

Science does not need PC. Mention that bit of logic to a libkid and they are destroyed, utterly.