Scientific Knowledge In The Film 'Race An Illusion'

In the film Race an Illusion, the social concept of race is evaluated. The government needed race to justify slavery and segregation of humans based off of biological differences. Science was looked at to validate what people already thought about racial differences. This use of science shows how scientific knowledge is constructed. The scientific method is just a process of obtaining data. That data is then interpreted. The perspective and thoughts of the interpreter can skew how the report the data. This was evident in the film when measurements of brain size were used to define race rankings. Scientific knowledge was constructed by societal views of that time. Joel Achenbach touches on how perceptions construct scientific knowledge. People