Science and Race Prejudice

Race and Prejudice

We can therefore welcome two recent publications of unesco in the series "The Race Question in Modern Science" which deal succinctly with these problems?"The Roots of Prejudice" by Professor Arnold Rose, and "Race and Psychology" by Professor Otto Klineberg.* The former?which is better read first?discusses the causes of prejudice, and outlines the advantages, material and psychological, which a...

Race, Prejudice a N D Education

Positive and negative prejudice: Interactions of prejudice with race and social desirability

Women in science — passion and prejudice

(Chris Comer, of the Texas Education Agency) who are hounded out of their jobs because of their support of evolution in school curricula, and have initial nods toward sanctioning the Institute for Creation Research (now located in Dallas) by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the same state agency that certifies the school I work at, the University of Texas at Austin. That said, I r...

Near-death experiences between science and prejudice

Science exists to refute dogmas; nevertheless, dogmas may be introduced when undemonstrated scientific axioms lead us to reject facts incompatible with them. Several studies have proposed psychobiological interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), claiming that NDEs are a mere byproduct of brain functions gone awry; however, relevant facts incompatible with the ruling physicalist and red...