The tenor of this article, which is poorly researched but laden with quotes, is that human races do not exist and are merely a social construct. A few excerpts to that end:He cowrote a nice 2023 article:The president’s order noted, among other things, that the show “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating ‘Race is a human invention.’”In interviews, several scholars questioned why the executive order appeared to take issue with that view, which is now broadly held. Samuel J. Redman, a history professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst who has written about scientific racism, said that “the executive order is troubling and out of step with the current consensus.” He added that pseudoscientific attempts to create a hierarchy of races with white people at the top were seen “in places like Nazi Germany or within the eugenics movement.”
1. Sex in humans is not a discrete and binary distribution of males and females but a spectrum.As he explains, these 6 views have become fashionable in academia, but they are all false.
2. All behavioral and psychological differences between human males and females are due to socialization.
3. Evolutionary psychology, the study of the evolutionary roots of human behavior, is a bogus field based on false assumptions.
4. We should avoid studying genetic differences in behavior between individuals.
5. “Race and ethnicity are social constructs, without scientific or biological meaning.”
6. Indigenous “ways of knowing” are equivalent to modern science and should be respected and taught as such.
DNA tests can identify race, and that matches the self-identified race 99% of the time. So obviously race is a real biological classification, and not just a social construct.
They cannot show that Trump is wrong, so they say he "is troubling and out of step with the current consensus". The consensus of the academic race agitators is wrong, and this all the more shows the need for an executive order.
30 years ago biologists tried to take the scientific high ground, and lecture us endlessly on how Darwinism is scientific and creationism is not. Now it is just the opposite. Academic biologists have joined the woke religion, and insist on saying nonsense as if it were scientific. Coyne is an exception, as he is a retired old curmudgeon who can afford to stick to science.