# I'm here to help, Velocity

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 26, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986 "2016-07-26T22:59:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/71 "2023-11-19T18:26:40Z")

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Velocity is reviving the bullshit, straw-man based, pseudoscientific “race and intelligence” crap:

> [@Unsupported Science Beliefs You Hold](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsupported-science-beliefs-you-hold/993365/45):
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> That’s kind of the attitude I was alluding to. We have no problem acknowledging that racial differences can lead to physical differences - sickle-cell traits, eyelid shapes, skin color, higher or lower rates of lupus or Type-2 diabetes, stomach cancer, etc. But somehow we pretend as if the brain cannot be influenced by genetics likewise. The odd thing is, we even acknowledge that the brain can differ on gender/sex, can differ even in political differences (it’s known that conservatives have g…

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