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'''Scientific racism''' is the belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify [[racism]], racial inferiority, or [[racial superiority]].<ref>"Ostensibly scientific": cf. Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross (eds.) 2003. The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences Cambridge University Press, p. 293 "Race has long played a powerful popular role in explaining social and cultural traits, often in ostensibly scientific terms"; Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper (eds.), ''The Social Science Encyclopedia'' (1996), "Racism", p. 716: "This [''[[sc.]] scientific''] racism entailed the use of 'scientific techniques', to sanction the belief in European and American racial Superiority"; ''Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Questions to Sociobiology'' (1998), "Race, theories of", p. 18: "Its exponents [''sc. of scientific racism''] tended to equate race with species and claimed that it constituted a scientific explanation of human history"; Terry Jay Ellingson, ''The myth of the noble savage'' (2001), 147ff. "In scientific racism, the racism was never very scientific; nor, it could at least be argued, was whatever met the qualifications of actual science ever very racist" (p. 151); Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy, ''A History of Anthropological Theory'' (2008), p. 152: "Scientific racism: Improper or incorrect science that actively or passively supports racism".</ref><ref name="SciRac_Gould">{{cite book|last=Gould|first=Stephen Jay|author-link=Stephen Jay Gould|title=The Mismeasure of Man|publisher=W W Norton and Co.|year=1981|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mismeasureofman00goulrich/page/28 28–29]|isbn=978-0-393-01489-1|quote=Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.|title-link=The Mismeasure of Man}}</ref><ref name="SciRac_CSI">{{cite journal|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/scientific-ethics.html|title=Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?|access-date=1 December 2007|last=Kurtz|first=Paul|date=Sep 2004|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123123232/http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/scientific-ethics.html|archive-date=23 November 2007|quote=There have been abundant illustrations of pseudoscientific theories-monocausal theories of human behavior that were hailed as "scientific"-that have been applied with disastrous results. Examples: ... Many racists today point to IQ to justify a menial role for blacks in society and their opposition to affirmative action.}}</ref>  Historically, scientific racism received credence throughout the scientific community.<ref name="SciRac_Gould"/><ref name="SciRac_CSI"/>  

'''Scientific racism''' is the belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify [[racism]], racial inferiority, or [[racial superiority]].<ref>"Ostensibly scientific": cf. Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross (eds.) 2003. The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences Cambridge University Press, p. 293 "Race has long played a powerful popular role in explaining social and cultural traits, often in ostensibly scientific terms"; Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper (eds.), ''The Social Science Encyclopedia'' (1996), "Racism", p. 716: "This [''[[sc.]] scientific''] racism entailed the use of 'scientific techniques', to sanction the belief in European and American racial Superiority"; ''Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Questions to Sociobiology'' (1998), "Race, theories of", p. 18: "Its exponents [''sc. of scientific racism''] tended to equate race with species and claimed that it constituted a scientific explanation of human history"; Terry Jay Ellingson, ''The myth of the noble savage'' (2001), 147ff. "In scientific racism, the racism was never very scientific; nor, it could at least be argued, was whatever met the qualifications of actual science ever very racist" (p. 151); Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy, ''A History of Anthropological Theory'' (2008), p. 152: "Scientific racism: Improper or incorrect science that actively or passively supports racism".</ref><ref name="SciRac_Gould">{{cite book|last=Gould|first=Stephen Jay|author-link=Stephen Jay Gould|title=The Mismeasure of Man|publisher=W W Norton and Co.|year=1981|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mismeasureofman00goulrich/page/28 28–29]|isbn=978-0-393-01489-1|quote=Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.|title-link=The Mismeasure of Man}}</ref><ref name="SciRac_CSI">{{cite journal|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/scientific-ethics.html|title=Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?|access-date=1 December 2007|last=Kurtz|first=Paul|date=Sep 2004|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123123232/http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/scientific-ethics.html|archive-date=23 November 2007|quote=There have been abundant illustrations of pseudoscientific theories-monocausal theories of human behavior that were hailed as "scientific"-that have been applied with disastrous results. Examples: ... Many racists today point to IQ to justify a menial role for blacks in society and their opposition to affirmative action.}}</ref>  Historically, scientific racism received credence throughout the scientific community.<ref name="SciRac_Gould"/><ref name="SciRac_CSI"/>  

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