Science Focus Book Club: Further reading on racism
What are the biggest scientific misconceptions about race? Where do racial biases come from, and can they be unlearned? Read stories on science and racism here while taking part in June's Science Focus Book Club.
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Race science: Angela Saini on the creeping resurgence of racism in science
5/24/2019
We like to think of science as being balanced, accurate, and devoid of prejudice. Yet according to Angela Saini, racism is insidiously worming its way into research.
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BAME children 'more at risk' of rare COVID-19-related syndrome
6/4/2020
The Evelina London Children’s Hospital says around 70-80 per cent of the children it has treated for the syndrome are from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background.
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Pragya Agarwal: "We learn biases through our lifetime. And because we learn them, we can unlearn them as well"
4/7/2020
Behavioural scientist Dr Pragya Agarwal explains why we all have implicit biases and how we can unlearn them.
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Forbidden medicine: what do we do when medical breakthroughs are unethical?
1/9/2020
From Nazi medicine to GM babies, unethical research has a deeply problematic history. But what should we do when the results of these studies could offer useful scientific insight?
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Angela Saini: Inequality in science
7/25/2018
We talk to Angela Saini about the science of gender and race, and about how to even the playing field.
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What are the biggest scientific misconceptions about race?
6/4/2020
Geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford quashes the ‘proof’ that people use to justify their racist beliefs.
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Why social media makes us so angry, and what you can do about it
4/2/2020
Every time we glance at our phones or check our social media, we are met by irate tweets and rage-inducing headlines. Why are we all so furious, and is the always-on culture making us angrier?
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Adam Rutherford: Can science ever be rid of racism?
3/6/2020
Geneticist Adam Rutherford refutes ‘scientific’ claims made to affirm racist beliefs, and tells us why science needs to stand up to racism.
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Disability rights activist Adam Pearson on the lasting effect of eugenics
11/4/2020
Co-host of the new BBC documentary Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal, speaks to us about making the documentary and discovering what his life would’ve been like as a disabled man in Britain in the early 20th Century.
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Why we need to rethink the way we classify people
2/27/2020
Humans love to sort ourselves into neat boxes - by gender, race, sexual orientation and more. But, in this extract from Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F Klein argue that it's time to dispense with these classifications.
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