[ExI] Race Biology (was Larks vs Night Owls)

[Damien Broderick]

At 06:28 PM 3/19/2008 -0400, Rafal wrote of Stuart's quote from Lee:

> > It gets worse. Much worse. The New England Journal of Medicine
> > actually reported an investigation of differences in the
> > effectiveness
> > of two types of hypertension medication in the so-called "black"
> > people and the so-called "white" people here in the U.S.  You won't
> > believe this, but they even went on---surely in the full knowledge
> > that race is a biological fallacy (they're surely not that un-read)
> > ---to allude to a so-called "fact" that the so-called "black" people
> > are more likely than the so-called "white" people to have nitric-
> > oxide insufficiency. (Can you believe it??)
>
>### I really despise the idea that somebody would denounce and 
>suppress life-saving research, if that research acknowledges the 
>biological reality of race.

Lee, for the lova dog, will you please explain that this was a 
sardonic reductio ad absurdum, not a genuine position statement.

Damien Broderick