/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8796198
yes but it is not typically a relevant variation.

>>7557983
no you are projecting your ideology upon this.

There is some real value and utility to it in a scientific context. It can serve these ends and not have any social relevance. However, the culture has pathologized such discussion where the two will be conflated as a hand-waving dismissal of evidence and silencing.

The fact is that if these ideas are so unfounded, you would be able to destroy them without suppression tactics.

perhaps you should head to reddit or tumblr if this is encouraging on a safe space.

>>7497684
Fuck these upboat niggers.

You know what else isn't rigorously defined? Life. We don't have a strict definition.

>It is a challenge for scientists and philosophers to define life in unequivocal terms.[26][27][28] This is difficult partly because life is a process, not a pure substance.[29][30] Any definition must be sufficiently broad to encompass all life with which we are familiar, and must be sufficiently general to include life that may be fundamentally different from life on Earth.[31][32][33]

>Since there is no unequivocal definition of life, the current understanding is descriptive. Life is considered a characteristic of organisms that exhibit all or most of the following characteristics or traits:[32][34][35]

And yet we don't quibble about it like we do with race. Race is just a useful way of grouping individuals by likeness.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/
Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity.

>>6326075
So certain algorithms are better at displaying the patterns we see than others. That's all that boils down to.

>>5768131
>2013
>conflating species with race

Race is a tricky issue. There's too much political influence in the topic, left and right.