This would make sense if genes operated at the group level. They do not. Groups selection is pretty much discredited as a mechanism of evolutionary change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection
I think you are mistaken; legislation was passed last year.
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 prohibits group health plans and health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual or charging that person higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future.
I have seen East Indians categorized. . . . extremely unsatisfactory to your average racist.
Simply because people mistakenly identify their genetic cluster (race) does not mean that there is no biological basis for the existence of the clusters. Furthermore, error rates for self-identified race must be lower than your anecdotal evidence would imply, because of the finding of the same Stanford study linked above.
I didn't say there were vast racial differences, only that there is increasing evidence that race is useful as a medical/biological concept. I think the sources I quoted support that point.
I am opposing the politically-correct position (which I inferred that you were taking - correct me if I have invoked a straw man fallacy) which sees race entirely as a sociological construct with no scientific validity.
Sorry, but the disavowal of differences between races is running up against more and more scientific evidence to the contrary. Human racial groupings may not be as discrete as species, but they have medical relevance.
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This would make sense if genes operated at the group level. They do not. Groups selection is pretty much discredited as a mechanism of evolutionary change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection
I think you are mistaken; legislation was passed last year. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 prohibits group health plans and health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual or charging that person higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future.
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No, they support the point that genetic differences are a useful medical/biological concept.
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And I am arguing that self-identified race is a good shorthand for one's position in the genetic distribution.
The correlation with nominal racial categories is at best local, at worst none at all.
Scientists at Stanford think otherwise. See here:
http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases/2005/january
I have seen East Indians categorized. . . . extremely unsatisfactory to your average racist.
Simply because people mistakenly identify their genetic cluster (race) does not mean that there is no biological basis for the existence of the clusters. Furthermore, error rates for self-identified race must be lower than your anecdotal evidence would imply, because of the finding of the same Stanford study linked above.
I didn't say there were vast racial differences, only that there is increasing evidence that race is useful as a medical/biological concept. I think the sources I quoted support that point.
I am opposing the politically-correct position (which I inferred that you were taking - correct me if I have invoked a straw man fallacy) which sees race entirely as a sociological construct with no scientific validity.
Sorry, but the disavowal of differences between races is running up against more and more scientific evidence to the contrary. Human racial groupings may not be as discrete as species, but they have medical relevance.
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The reality of race
http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases/2005/january
http://www.policyreview.org/DEC01/satel.html
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002A3
Medical significance of race
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/080501/
http://www.marrow.org/NMDP/black_african_american
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