the idea that discussion of this issue is potentially dangerous, given the history of actual pseudoscience related to race, used as a means of discrimination and oppression. The problem is that by suppressing any discussion, it breeds the very people who would offer up racial pseudoscience. No group in society is more important in articulating the nuances of this issue than academics and, unfortunately, they are just about the most strident, hysterical, and least-nuanced in addressing it.