"Curt Fischer" wrote ...
> 
> Well, a couple of points:
> 
> 1. I said "no special scientific meaning".  The doesn't mean useless. 
> It just means that whatever categories of race that we create are not 
> useful for reaching scientific understanding about the nature of genetic 
> and physiological diversity among homo sapiens.  They might be very 
> useful for other applications.
> 
> 2. I was just repeating what I'd read elsewhere.  Personally, I have a 
> difficult time swallowing that argument, too.  I've read too many 
> reports of diseases such as anemia and stomach cancer being linked to 
> race to believe that the concept has no usefulness.

Actually there's good scientific evidence that the /way/ 'race' labels are
applied to humanity is specifically wrong.  That is that if you examine 
genetic variations within the human population commonly used labels
of 'race' are a poor fit compared to the actual data.