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Scientists like Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon Kamin, Stephen J Gould, and many others raised these concerns nearly 50 years ago, that simplistic interpretation of genetic and evolutionary research feeds into the developing far-right metapolitics 2/

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They noted continuity between past work stemming from the eugenics & white supremacism of the time to new manifestations of supposed objective scientific work. Of course, this doesn't mean the science is wrong a priori, but there is often an important ideological undercurrent 3/

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We're in a similar situation, especially in behavioral genetics. The field has been revitalized by new methods. Some are trying to move away from the deterministic past but the break is not clean or easy. The work is also feeding a resurgent race science4/

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After years of struggling to uncover the genetic basis of diseases, genome-wide association studies were heralded as a revolution in genetics.

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The Genetic Lottery is a bust for both genetics and policy

Divorcing this work from its past is a difficult task. Even well-intentioned attempts can fall short of the needed conceptual shift massivesci.com/articles/genet While this is happening the cooption unfortunately continues. The old world is dying while the new one struggles to be born

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Kathryn Paige Harden’s book tries to demonstrate how genetics can ameliorate societal ills. She falls well, well short

I think understanding this history is centrally important for how we proceed. Knowing the past of fields like behavioral genetics, the attempts to move past genetic determinism/exceptionalism and reductionism, & ways to strongly refute far-right cooption

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This stuff from Lewontin, Gould et al has value, but I think its impact was limited by the explicit avowed socialism, in the middle of the Cold War. People on the Right did chain-of-association games linking socialism to repressive communism, the crimes of Stalin/Mao, etc