2020
DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2020/8583
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Bad science cannot be used as a basis of constructive dialogue: Response to Prof Nicoli Nattrass commentary

Abstract: This Commentary is a response to a Commentary published in the May/June 2020 issue: Nattrass N. Why are black South African students less likely to consider studying biological sciences? S Afr J Sci. 2020;116(5/6), Art. #7864, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7864 Responses to the Commentary in the May/June 2020 issue have been published collectively in a special issue of Volume 116.

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“…The basic charge against my Commentary is that it is 'racist'. 4,19 A slightly more subtle criticism is that I am unaware of my 'own biases … and narrow-minded views of black people'. 20 My 'assumptions' about students were 'problematic' whilst my 'presuppositions' were 'under-examined' and 'Eurocentric or worse'.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…The basic charge against my Commentary is that it is 'racist'. 4,19 A slightly more subtle criticism is that I am unaware of my 'own biases … and narrow-minded views of black people'. 20 My 'assumptions' about students were 'problematic' whilst my 'presuppositions' were 'under-examined' and 'Eurocentric or worse'.…”
Section: The Basic Chargementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many of my critics charge me -explicitly or implicitly -with the crime of racial essentialism. For example, Mzilikazi et al 19 assert that the Commentary 'depicts and frames a whole racial grouping as largely governed by materialism, linked to a poor relationship with nature and pets'. Firstly, the Commentary was clear about the sample not being representative and hence that findings could not be generalized to UCT students let alone a 'whole racial grouping'.…”
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