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The great race debate.(Race: The Reality of Human Differences)(Book Review)
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Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
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March 22, 2005
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Two reviews of Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele. Westview Press, 2004, 320 pp. $27.50 ISBN: 0813340861
Editor's note: The authors of the book under review are both have connections to Skeptic magazine: Vincent Sarich is on our editorial advisory board and Frank Miele is a Senior Editor who has written many articles and reviews for the magazine over the past decade. We initially received a very positive review of their book by Paul R. Gross, which we were hesitant to publish because of a perceived conflict of interest or biased reporting. But then, independently of Gross and uncommissioned by us, Alondra Oubre submitted a critical ...
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