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AverageJoe90

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3. "as they would have found no difference between the races." And that's if.....

Reply to NickB79 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 1, 2015, 12:37 AM

Mar 2015

the study was even conducted honestly; which would have been hard to do, as TPTB had ways of silencing research that contradicted their favored agitprop flavor of the times, which happened to be racial eugenics in the 1920s and 1930s.

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I have a feeling that even if the experiments were conducted NickB79 Feb 2015 #1

I can't see how it would be possible to remove social biases in such a study. hunter Feb 2015 #2

"as they would have found no difference between the races." And that's if..... AverageJoe90 Mar 2015 #3