Suppress valid information for social justice because we are unable to create a better arrangement for everyone involved.
Not in our Genes?
In 1984, Lewontin, Rose and Kamin wrote Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature. I decided to read the book to see how the arguments faired after 23 years of additional research, argument and debate. As it turned out, even for 1984, the arguments against at that time primarily sociobiology were very weak by the authors own admission. That is they dont argue against genetic influences and racial differences so much as against science itself.
They start out: Each of us has been engaged for much of this time in research, writing, speaking, teaching, and public political activity in opposition to the oppressive forms in which determinist ideology manifests itself. We share a commitment to the prospect of the creation of a more socially justa socialistsociety. And we recognize that a critical science is an integral part of the struggle to create that society, just as we also believe that the social function of much of todays science is to hinder the creation of that society by acting to preserve the interests of the dominant class, gender, and race. This beliefin the possibility of a critical and liberatory scienceis why we have each in our separate ways and to varying degrees been involved in the development of what has become known over the 1970s and 1980s, in the United States and Britain, as the radical science movement.
Not in our Genes?