Institutions celebrate splitting animal taxa into finer species, but label inquiry into human population structure as 'pseudoscience.' The IUCN’s new four‑species classification for giraffes sits alongside Wikipedia’s sweeping condemnation of 'race science,' revealing asymmetrical norms about what kinds of biodiversity are discussable.
— This inconsistency shapes which research agendas and policy debates are permissible, affecting medicine, education, and governance.
Steve Sailer
2025.08.24
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IUCN’s formal reclassification of giraffes into four species and Wikipedia’s 'Scientific racism' entry cited as gatekeeping.
Steve Sailer
2025.06.04
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Sailer argues educated elites deny race while it 'obviously' tracks family trees (ancestry), paralleling the listed idea’s point that human population structure is treated as illegitimate even as fine-grained categorization is celebrated in animals.
John Carter
2025.05.28
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The article argues equality is a theological abstraction that masks real human biological variety and should not dictate uniform law, challenging the taboo against discussing human population differences much as the matched idea highlights asymmetrical norms around biodiversity.
2010.01.12
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Sesardic contends that eliminativist social‑construct arguments about race misrepresent biology and that contemporary genetics supports meaningful population structure in humans, echoing the claim that inquiry into human biodiversity is uniquely stigmatized versus animal taxa.