Was Franz Boas a fraud?

[The Bobster]

Franz Boas, "father of American anthropology", is well known for his work on racial differences. He apparently demonstrated that cephalic index, thought to be a racial trait, changed in different environments.

 

Recent analysis suggests his finding was manufactured by cherry-picking data.

 

"Using the recent reanalysis by Gravlee et al. (2003), we can observe in Figure 2 that the maximum difference in cranial index due to immigration (in Hebrews) is much smaller than the maximum ethnic difference, between Sicilians and Bohemians. It shows that long headed parents produce long headed offspring and vice versa. To make the argument that children of immigrants converge onto an "American type" required Boas to use the two groups that changed the most."

 

http://www.understandingrace.org/resources/pdf/myth_reality/jantz.pdf

 

There is also a suggestion that Boas was a "Marxist" in the subversive Jewish ethnic activist sense, ie. promoting "equality" to fracture White nations in Jewish interest.

 

Kevin MacDonald writes:

 

"By 1915 the Boasians controlled the American Anthropological Association and held a two-thirds majority on its Executive Board (Stocking 1968, 285). In 1919 Boas could state that most of the anthropological work done at the present time in the United States was done by his students at Columbia (in Stocking 1968, 296). By 1926 every major department of anthropology was headed by Boas's students, the majority of whom were Jewish...

Boas rarely cited works of people outside his group except to disparage them, whereas, as with Mead's and Benedict's work, he strenuously promoted and cited the work of people within the ingroup. The Boasian school of anthropology thus came to resemble in a microcosm key features of Judaism as a highly collectivist group evolutionary strategy: a high level of ingroup identification, exclusionary policies, and cohesiveness in pursuit of common interests."

 

http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/goyim/je1.pdf

 

So I expect this thread to be locked because it's not allowed to criticise Jews or something, but please bear in mind that this relates to possible ethnic subversion at the highest level of academic anthropology, and is entirely appropriate to discuss on this board. I am sure that a charge of "White supremacy" bias in academia would be fine to discuss.

Edited December 20, 2016 by The Bobster

[swansont]

 

So I expect this thread to be locked because it's not allowed to criticise Jews or something, but please bear in mind that this relates to possible ethnic subversion at the highest level of academic anthropology, and is entirely appropriate to discuss on this board. I am sure that a charge of "White supremacy" bias in academia would be fine to discuss.

 

 

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Moderator Note

 

You would be right, and wrong.

 

Because this approach smacks of conspiracy theory, it has no merit. That, plus it violates our rules regarding slurs and prejudice.

 

A thread on white supremacy bias would also likely be shut down, for similar reasons. White supremacy involves bigotry, and would similarly slur a large number of people, were one to claim that it's the backdrop of academia. A thread on white privilege in academia, however, could be discussed.