\nBloggers Rhiannon Mosher and Jennifer Long wanted to point readers to an important blog post on
Living Anthropologically<\/a>\u00a0called \u201cRace is not an accurate or productive way to describe human biological variation\u201d <\/i>by Jason Antrosio.<\/p>\nIn this article, Antrosio discusses a special issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and, deep in the post, the (mis) use of research in popular media and academic research articles. Antrosio writes:<\/p>\n
As I searched relevant articles, I was shocked and disgusted to discover the materials from forensic anthropologists were not only suffering popular misinterpretation, but were also being misused in peer-reviewed academic journals. One of the only 2010 articles citing the forensic anthropology pieces from Race Reconciled is a diatribe by philosopher Neven Sesardic titled Race: A social destruction of a biological concept. Sesardic claims fuzzy-headed social scientists and philosophers have misunderstood the proper biological underpinnings of the race concept. Sesardic then uses the forensic anthropology articles to make his case. Sesardic calls Sauer a \u201cbewildered and exasperated scientist\u201d (2010:156) and goes on to approvingly quote Sauer\u2019s 1992 article as supporting the idea of racial assignment. He similarly cherry-picks quotes from the 2009 articles to portray forensic anthropology as confirming traditional biological races.<\/i><\/p>\n
What better way to end off the semester than to have students read this post and discuss how scientific research is interpreted in the media. Happy end of semester everyone!<\/p>\n
Antrosio has updated both posts recently and they’re definitely worth a read.<\/p>\n
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