Early racial scientists lacked modern skills and some falsified their findings

Evidence

I’m hesitant to call them scientists uncritically because none of them had the kind of scientific skills, technology, or resources that we associate with scientists today; many of them were competent in one broad area of science, say biology, but not in its application to human population variance; and because many of them simply falsified their findings (see Gossett, 1965). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1910

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critiques of ‘race science’ and the idea that early racial classification was produced more by ideology than method.
• SEED: An article angle on the deliberate fabrication of data in early racial science and how falsification embedded itself into the founding canon of human classification.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1910