In his article "Scientific Racism: The Cloak of Objectivity", Halford H. Fairchild debunks another scientist's expansion on a race-base social heirarchy darwinism, revealing an underlying, flawed method of thinking present in many scientists in fields such as evolution and eugenics still today. He first points out the different racial profiling statistics present in Darwin's research, and then shows how they affected the works and findings of J. Phillip Rushton's studies of sociobiology, breaking it down into separate biases and flaws. He writes in order to preserve the actual scientific facts and values in the two works of both Darwin and Rushton, skimming off the layer of racism and crooked opinions that cling to the surface. His intended audience is those seeking scientific knowledge in these constantly expanding fields that do not contain the widespread biases present from the original forefathers.
Article Link: http://bernard.pitzer.edu/~hfairchi/pdf/ScientificRacism.pdf
MLA Citation:
Fairchild, Halford H. "Scientific Racism: The Cloak of Objectivity." Journal of Social Issues 47.3 (1991):
101-115. Web. 5 April 2012.
Annotation:
The article's precise focus on the works of one particular scientist and his racially tense theories will provide an example of how the misinterpretation or incorporation of the works of historic theorists such as Blumenbach and Darwin are still being used in modern race theory, and how the idea that scientists no longer strive to find the biological or genetic differences between races may not be completely true.
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