Talk:Genism

Merger

On 21 August 2010, User:Stevertigo proposed that the Genism article or section be merged into the Genetic discrimination article but proceeded with a merge without a discussion. I therefore undid the merge and propose that a discussion and vote takes place first. --Loremaster (talk) 23:12, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

The article Genetic discrimination links to here so I restored the article which was not merged to the former. --Aleksd (talk) 09:19, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Genetics determining some human traits as only a "hypothesis"

In reality, for at least some traits - e.g., those separating us from other species - it is a rather well-established theory; see any human genetics or evolution textbook for ample proof. Allens (talk) 07:56, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

This talk page is only for discussing improvements to the Genism article. --Loremaster (talk) 21:10, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

I am well aware of that; I am referring to the (lead) sentence "Genism is the hypothesis that distinctive human characteristics and capacities are determined by genes." First, the original source cited calls it a "theory", not a "hypothesis"; there is a difference between the two, and the sentence is not accurately representing what the source said. Second, given that there is ample evidence (which I will locate if need be) that this is correct, it needs to be made apparent that all is being stated is the apparent belief of the source in question that it is not (and that realization of its correctness means one is prejudiced, apparently), not that the article agrees with the source (see WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV), and moreover that this source's viewpoint is outweighed by other evidence, just as are beliefs in a flat earth outweighed by the massive evidence otherwise (see WP:UNDUE). Allens (talk) 05:53, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Strange. I don't remember why I replaced the word “theory” with “hypothesis”. I've restored it. --Loremaster (talk) 05:58, 11 November 2011 (UTC)