Citizen Scientific Racism

Aaron Panofsky (Associate Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology, UCLA) is your typical history focused Jewish, anti-racist academic. Some years ago, he wrote an interesting book, Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics (2014), a history on behavioral genetics. Although hostile, it contains a lot of interesting stuff, so I recommend it. Turns out, he has a new talk online, and it's quite funny. I of course agree with the basic message: academics do suppress these views, and citizen science helps loosen this institutional bias. The open science movement is a great leveler, so its funny to see some woke academics attack open science because it looses their censorship tools.

Archived version here in case this one gets deleted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiuUPGuihLM&has_verified=1

This is apparently partially the same talk as he previously gave in 2019.

https://twitter.com/Anthrofuentes/status/1112012383353012225