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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 973061" data-attributes="member: 8713">Sixchan> I have looked over that site, and there are a few things that I have noticed about it:1.  The author of that site uses antiquated data and has not looked into recent DNA research regarding the myth of biological races.  Since he has not updated his theory or the information he uses even to include ideas that are contrary to his own, I cannot take him seriously as a scientist.2.  The people who agree with him classify themselves as Caucasian and share his political views.  I'm not saying it means anything.  I'm just saying it's interesting.3.  The author makes no attempt to seek for sources of error and misinformation.  To claim that what he does is science is untrue.  My personal feeling is that he just wants to raise the hackles on what he considers leftist PC-Nazi liberals.4.  Although the author claims to be unbiased, the way he presents his information and the tone of his essays prove otherwise.So, I don't really take what he says seriously.  If you want to see some real scientific exploration into the biological basis of race (if any), I point you to these sites:<a href="http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm" target="_blank"> A PBS site that deals with race</a><a href="http://www.racesci.org/in_media/skin_deep.htm" target="_blank">Is Race Only Skin-deep?</a>.  I find this article interesting because it, like any truly scientific article, allows for the possibility of error and misinterpretation of data, which the man on his Racial Myths website does not.<a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002A353-C027-1E1C-8B3B809EC588EEDF" target="_blank">An article by the Scientific American on race and DNA</a>.  You can't get much more reputable than an actual scientific magazine.  However, (and this is what gets my respect), this article does not negate the possibility of political agendas seeping into the scientific community, even for their seemingly benign purposes.</blockquote>

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