Op-Ed: Are Women, People of Color, Asians, and Southern Europeans Inherently Inferior to North-European Males?

February 6, 2008

Biological determinism is the view tht biological or genetic factors are the main or even the sole cause of important behavioral differences between people, even when those behavioral differences involve complex behavior-environment interactions. However, biological determinism has a disgraceful history, a history involving scientific racism, scientific sexism, scientific classism, and what I call scientific mentalism. (RedOrbit)