“Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic aspects of racial inequality. Rather, he believes that scientific evidence that doesn't yet exist will explain the gaps eventually. He takes it as given that the answer must be biological.” RacismPseudoscienceBad Science Book:Superior: The Return of Race Science Source: Superior: The Return of Race Science
“In the history of science, we have to hunt for the women - not because they weren't capable of doing research, but because for a large chunk of time they didn't have the chance. We're still living with the legacy of an establishment that's just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice.” Women In Science Book:Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story Source: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story