By: Robert Carnegie
Jasper Gerald: “shared by” all kinds of people, perhaps? Big Brother contestants, stamp collectors, barmen, Roman Catholics, train drivers, postal workers? I found, as did you, a Web page “not intended...
View ArticleBy: Coobeastie
I have an argument at work about the possessive and Down(‘s) Syndrome – looking at various organisations in the UK both the possessive and the non-possessive are used. I prefer the non-possessive...
View ArticleBy: Charles Copeland
Robert [comment 16]: Jasper Gerald was indulging, I think, in “tongue-in-cheek” science. A decade ago, the revelation that Tony Blair has the simian line on both hands triggered quite a response in the...
View ArticleBy: Mhairi
I think the authors’ final paragraph really reveals the intention of the article. “Perhaps we could even clear Langdon [Down (sic)] of all blame from the accusation of being a ‘‘racist’’”…. hmmmm There...
View ArticleBy: Teek
spectacular piece of “research.” how this tripe gets published at all is close to beyond belief – good for a laugh tho, like the article Ben!
View ArticleBy: drowned
@coobeastie NICE have it as Down’s in their Antenatal Care guidance and the Down’s Syndrome Association do the same nationally, though it appears that regionally some use Downs, though that seems odd...
View ArticleBy: Evilsteve
I have dealt with this comprehensively in my soon to be published book “Down’s Victims: What are they like?” It’s very simple. Your oriental is inscrutable whereas Down’s people are very scrutable....
View ArticleBy: MarcC
Would Steven Pinker classify this article amongst the “dangerous” ideas as described in this small article: www.edge.org/q2006/q06_3.html#pinker Is all this: dangerous science ? bad science? pseudo...
View ArticleBy: projektleiterin
To Mhairi, There is no evidence to suggest that Langdon Down was racist, in fact he used his research to suggest that racial categories were non specific and pretty useless due to the fact that...
View ArticleBy: manigen
I don’t know whether Langdon Down was racist or not, but I think Mhairi’s argument is that you have to judge him according the time he lived in. After all, by our standards very nearly everyone was...
View ArticleBy: Mhairi
To Projektleiterin The reasons I would not consider Langdon Down a racist, which I thought I’d made explicit, are two fold. 1) As Manigen points out the landscape within which he was writing was one...
View ArticleBy: Maya
I think you should still test the hypothesis that it is a hoax – maybe the writers are trying to prove Elsevier’s and reviewers’ (yes, what about those?) gullibility? Presumably there is a contact for...
View ArticleBy: NuttyBat
Perhaps Richard Dawkins should be sent in to challenge the publishers and authors?!
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By: projektleiterin
Mhairi and manigen, do you mean to say that he is a racist, but not such a bad racist, because he was only the product of his time? Similar to the silent majority that did not oppose segregation in the...
View ArticleBy: manigen
Like I said above mate; I’m not suggesting anything. I don’t know enough about Langdon to have formed an opinion. The italian article is idiotic. Merely being offensive isn’t enough to condem research,...
View ArticleBy: Mhairi
projektleiterin I meant to say what I said, if that’s alright? But I think we’re all on the same page anyhow…… or at least in the same chapter, innit! Great idea NuttyBat, yeah send Dawkins to rant at,...
View ArticleBy: Fan Gao Rui
That’s quite funny. I might translate it again and post it on 163 to gauge the reaction. It’s nonsense of course: the Down’s syndrome rate in China is between 1/600 and 1/800 depending on where you...
View ArticleBy: Ironmonkey66
Wholly macro!! My parents are from South East Asia, and we all hate monosodium glutamate… it makes us sick and drowsy. This article is so funny! That’s what I call free speech in the free world! By the...
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