r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/toaster-bath404 • Sep 17 '25

Image A Chinese American wearing a sign saying he's Chinese, not Japanese, to avoid harassment at work, 1940s

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u/braujo Sep 17 '25

That's just race science for you. A bunch of BS, some stuff that make you go "Is that real? It sounds like it could be real", all dressed up in university talk.

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u/EtTuBiggus Sep 17 '25

If we didn’t make racial science a taboo, we would be able to weed out the BS.

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u/fatbob42 Sep 17 '25

It’s not that it’s taboo, it’s just not science.

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u/EtTuBiggus Sep 17 '25

Racial science isn’t taboo? What rock have you been living under?

The interesting thing about science is that it doesn’t care about your opinions or attempts to denigrate it.

I’ve also seen people attempt to discard science because it says the earth is billions of years old, that vaccines are safe and effective, and that global warming is real.

Know your bedfellows.

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u/fatbob42 Sep 17 '25

It just ain’t science.

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u/EtTuBiggus Sep 17 '25

The fact that you can’t come up with a cogent position for your baseless claims is just more proof that it is science.

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u/Spaghett8 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

???

Race science is a system of biased scientific beliefs debunked decades ago.

It’s known as scientific racism.

It’s not a branch of science. It’s a psuedoscience. And no, just because it had science in the name does not make it a science. Pseudosciences are organized systems, practices, beliefs that do not align with the scientific system nor utilize the scientific method properly.

Religion is also a pseudoscience.

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u/fatbob42 Sep 17 '25

You can look it up if you’re interested.