Sunday, May 29, 2011

On the Genetics of Homosexuality

"Scientific analyses sometimes involve unarticulated assumptions, which are imbued with the authority of science by virtue of being embedded in scientific analyses. These have to be confronted and scrutinized, for they are potentially harmful and stand thereby to taint science. If you can't do science without harming, victimizing,  or stigmatizing people, you shouldn't be doing it. The burden of undertaking something controversial is to do it in such a way that you don't hurt anybody."
   - What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee (Jonathan Marks)

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