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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson

Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss

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Scientific racism misuses science to promote false beliefs, according to the US National Institutes of Health. Composite: Alex Mellon for the Guardian : Alamy/Getty Images/iStockphoto

An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur.

Undercover filming has revealed the existence of the organisation, formed two years ago as the Human Diversity Foundation. Its members have used podcasts, videos, an online magazine and research papers to seed “dangerous ideology” about the supposed genetic superiority of certain ethnic groups.

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