ALT Titre du script de ma prochaine vidéo : "Le racisme scientifique (1750-2025)

ALT Extrait de blog : "Cette difficulté de calculer les conséquences sociales de ces recherches se remarque aussi au fait que les deux camps s’accusent mutuellement « d’oublier les leçons de l’histoire ». Les détracteurs de ces recherches aiment dire que faire de la génétique du comportement humain, c’est oublier les leçons du nazisme et de l’eugénisme. Mais en face, les défenseurs de ces recherches rappellent que vouloir les interdire, c’est oublier les leçons de Galilée et Vavilov – ce généticien condamné à mort parce que ses théories sur l’hérédité ne collaient pas avec l’idéologie de l’URSS. En fait, interdire la biologie du comportement serait aussi oublier les leçons du nazisme, puisque celui-ci a censuré certaines théories élaborées par des physiciens juifs [Schéma 1]. Donc en fait, tout le monde peut accuser l’autre d’oublier les leçons de l’histoire et d’être un nazi en puissance..."

ALT Extrait d'un billet de blog : "En fait, interdire la biologie du comportement serait aussi oublier les leçons du nazisme, puisque celui-ci a censuré certaines théories élaborées par des physiciens juifs"

ALT Assiette de protéines de soja texturées cuisinées dans une sauce aigre-douce (tomate, ananas jus et morceaux, oignons rouges, ail, sirop d'agave, fécule de maïs, paprika, vinaigre de riz, sauce soja, citron, poivre) sur son lit de riz basmati

ALT The Apportionment of Human Diversity R. C. LEWONTIN Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois INTRODUCTION It has always been obvious that organisms vary, even to those pre-Darwinian idealists who saw most individual variation as distorted shadows of an ideal. It has been equally apparent, even to those post-Darwinians for whom variation between individuals is the central fact of evolutionary dynamics, that variation is nodal, that individuals fall in clusters in the space of phenotypic description, and that those clusters, which we call demes, or races, or species, are the outcome of an evolutionary process acting on the individual variation. What has changed during the evolution of scientific thought, and is still changing, is our perception of the relative importance and extent of intragroup as opposed to intergroup variation. These changes have been in part a reflection of the uncovering of new biological facts, but only in part. [...]

ALT But nothing evokes as much hostility among intellectuals as the suggestion that social forces influence or even dictate either the scientific method or the facts and theories of science. The Cartesian social analysis of science, like the Cartesian analysis in science, alienates science from society, making scientific fact and method "objective" and beyond social influence. Our view is different. Webelieve that science, in all its senses, is a social process that both causes and is caused by social organization. To do science is to be a social actor engaged, whether one likes it or not, in political activity. The denial of the interpenetration of the scientific and the social is itself a political act, giving support to social structures that hide behind scientific objectivity to perpetuate dependency, exploitation, racism, elitism, colonialism. Nor do absurd ex.amples diminish the truth of this necessary engagement. Of course the speed of light is the same under socialism and

ALT Of course the speed of light is the same under socialism and capitalism, and the apple that was said to have fallen on the Master of the Mint in 1664 would have struck his Labor Party successor three-hundred years later with equal force. But whether the cause of tuberculosis is said to be a bacillus or the capitalist exploitation of workers, whether the death rate from cancer is best reduced by studying oncogenes or by seizing control of factories-these questions can be decided objectively only within the framework of certain sociopolitical assumptions. The third section of the book is not about the effect of science on society or the effect of society on science. Rather, it is meant to show how science and other aspects of social life interpenetrate and to show why scientists, whether they realize it or not, always choose sides.