I just read the New Yorker article on the anthropologist Franz Boas. It was interesting to read about how the scientific community was, at that time, dominated by men who were willing to distort objectivity to push racist social agendas that affirmed the power of ruling elites. It cast an interesting historical light upon a tradition that has been brought back into vogue by the current administration. I could not help but be reminded of their repeated denials of the existence of climate change and their firmly held belief that homosexuality is immoral and, for all intents and purposes, contagious. And then there are those weapons of mass destruction that were supposed to be in Iraq.
If you have not yet read this article, I would encourage you to do so. Boas was a most remarkable American, and his contributions could be more widely known.
