Racist science consequences arise from innocent assumptions, not bad intentions

Evidence

Of course it would be absurd to blame the sciences alone for the problematic applications and technologies identified by the critics, let alone to blame individual scientists. That is not the point of these criticisms of the neutral science position. Rather, it is to understand the functions of scientific projects in their historic contexts, and how racist and ethnocentric consequences follow from apparently innocent assumptions about human variation, causes of social change, human progress, the functions of valueneutrality, and what constitute good methods. Science-and-society are one social formation, each aspect of which is deeply rooted in assumptions of the other. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1572

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1572
• XREF: connects to: Even anti-racist scientists accepted fixed cultural essences of races; Scientists can acknowledge racist projects without conceding science’s cultural neutrality — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1554