# 10 years after the "looming crisis in human genetics"

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**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-after-the-looming-crisis-in-human-genetics/844236 "2019-12-01T14:16:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-after-the-looming-crisis-in-human-genetics/844236/31 "2019-12-03T01:25:22Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> I’ve heard some racists claim that it’s the admixture of Neanderthal genes that makes white people superior. No matter what the facts are, racists are going to find some way to spin them to match their preconceived notions. Might as well publish the true facts, rather than letting them make up their own.

Funnily enough, it wasn’t but weeks after the Neanderthal gene admixture studies started to be published that a race-realist poster used it against me ([in my initial thread 9 n’ 1/2 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=566582)) as vindicating proof of African mental inferiority. He even threatened that it was an “initial shot” that would bring down our “egalitarian blank slatism”.

> [@So, it's June... WHERE THE \*\*\*\* IS THIS LOOMING GENETIC CRISIS!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-june-where-the-is-this-looming-genetic-crisis/542669/84):
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> > [@So, it's June... WHERE THE \*\*\*\* IS THIS LOOMING GENETIC CRISIS!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-june-where-the-is-this-looming-genetic-crisis/542669/25):
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> > There was one study this year, **Orcenio** , which seemed to be an initial shot across the bow against the general argument that we are all more or less equivalent branches of the same genetic trunk: [this Science article](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710) is one of the first to provide at least one genetically-based distinction between Eurasians and sub-saharans.
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> I can’t wait for them to come. I can only wonder how wild your wild-ass racial interpretations of any of these papers will get.

For these people “the proof” is always coming (just around the corner) and it will vindicate everything they say about the races. We just need to watch out/run for cover/convert now; before its too late! They grab everything new and science related to be the first to pervert it into a racialized screed and make wild claims on top of more wild claims hoping that their interlocutor isn’t well versed in whatever niche science (or African history) they are perverting.

Jeez. We can even see the technique (unashamedly) used in this thread which is dedicated to celebrating the 10 year milestone of another claim. With a complete lack of any sense of irony.

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