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Yes, Racial Diversity Creates Distrust
by David Sims (Commentary on “Does Diversity Create Distrust?” by Daisy Grewal, Scientific American) THERE ARE flaws in Grewal’s thinking that might arise from an implicitly racist definition of racism on her part. The racism in the definition of racism consists of some notion…

Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? (part 4)
by Revilo P. Oliver THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is an old and highly respected periodical. It tries to report discoveries and significant developments in all of the major sciences, and although its pages are occasionally adulterated with “sociological” buncombe, its articles deal chiefly with physics,…

A Misleading Article About Race in Scientific American
by David Sims
Preface
RACE ISN’T A social construct. It is a physical, biological reality. It’s the result of differences in inherited genes. It’s a fact, not an opinion. A social construct is something that doesn’t really exist, except by agreement, by common assent.…