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11/16/2008: "Concern expressed that DNA discoveries will support "racist" observations."
Though few of the bits of human genetic code that vary between individuals have yet to be tied to physical or behavioral traits, scientists have found that roughly 10 percent of them are more common in certain continental groups and can be used to distinguish people of different races. They say that studying the differences, which arose during the tens of thousands of years that human populations evolved on separate continents after their ancestors dispersed from humanity's birthplace in East Africa, is crucial to mapping the genetic basis for disease.
But many geneticists, wary of fueling discrimination and worried that speaking openly about race could endanger support for their research, are loath to discuss the social implications of their findings. Still, some acknowledge that as their data and methods are extended to nonmedical traits, the field is at what one leading researcher recently called "a very delicate time, and a dangerous time."
"There are clear differences between people of different continental ancestries," said Marcus W. Feldman, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. "It's not there yet for things like I.Q., but I can see it coming. And it has the potential to spark a new era of racism if we do not start explaining it better."
[ The truth cannot be suppressed for much longer. Why are they so sure it won't be found that blacks really are genetically "superior" in important ways, unless these anti-racists are in fact jumping to racist conclusions?! If they think false conclusions will be reached then all they need to do is to dismiss the findings as being prejudiced. ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us/11dna.html?_r=6&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=science&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1194742802-no%252&oref=login