“Scientists should not be so scared of racism that they ignore facts”: “‘This restraint has become a massive and
unjustifiable taboo today that is both foolish and
destructive…There is an unspoken rule that says that race and science make a
deadly combination, and that the effect of “scientific racism” is always
malevolent. In his comprehensive, must-read book, The Meaning of
Race, Kenan Malik provides a detailed description of how social
Darwinism, eugenics, positivism, slavery and colonialism all used real
and pseudo-scientific theory to justify white superiority and, at times,
class superiority, too.” Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes in the Independent.