From HuffPo (bastion of liberal spin/bullshit)
House GOP's COVID Hearing Features Advocate Of Racist Theories About Genetics


House nigger Kweisi Mfume beez all mad an' sheeit about it; at the 5:55 mark Wade retorts to the torrent of nonsensical niggerbabble bix nood he was subjected to.

AHouse hearing on COVID-19’s origins on Wednesday unraveled almost immediately as Democrats decried one of the GOP’s witnesses: Nicholas Wade, the author of a 2014 book that made outrageous, racist claims about Black people being more prone to violence.
Wade, a British author and former New York Times science writer, wrote a book called “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” that waswidelydenounced by the scientific community for misrepresenting research into human population genetics.
In another passage about Africans’ economic conditions, Wade wonders whether “variations in their nature, such as their time preference, work ethic and propensity to violence, have some bearing on the economic decisions they make.”
LOL you really think so?

Wednesday’s hearing had barely begun when Rep. Raul Ruiz (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, denounced Wade as a “dangerous” and “extreme” pick by Republicans to feature in a hearing supposedly focused on facts and science.

“I was alarmed to see someone who wrote a book applauded by white supremacists,” said Ruiz, noting that former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke praised Wade’s book on his radio show in 2014.

“[Wade] claims that certain populations have been slower to experience an evolutionary change he has described as ‘the transformation of a population’s social traits from the violent, short-term, impulsive behavior typical of many hunter-gatherer and tribal societies’ into ‘the more disciplined, future-oriented behavior observed in other populations,’” he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...f1353ef3&ei=10

FOX News weighs in:

Democrat opens COVID origin hearing by accusing witness Nicholas Wade of racist views

During Wednesday's hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Democratic ranking member on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic accused one of the expert witnesses of harboring racist views that would discredit the committee's work.

In his opening remarks, Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., objected to the presence of Nicholas Wade as a witness invited by the majority. Ruiz said that Wade, a science reporter who wrote a seminal article examining whether COVID-19 had leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, had written a book in 2014 that was "applauded by White supremacists."

"Today's hearing marks a concerning step down the path of letting extremism get in the way of an inquiry that should be led by science and facts," Ruiz said. He announced that he had sent a letter to the Republican majority requesting that Wade be removed as a witness for his purported "discredited, unscientific and harmful views."

Wade's controversial book, "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History," argued that human races are a biological reality and that recent human evolution has led to racial differences in economic and social behavior. More than 130 population geneticists denounced the book at the time, including some of whom Wade had cited who said he had misrepresented their work.
"The notion that people of different racial or ethnic groups are more successful or intellectually superior to another because of predisposed genetic makeup is grossly inconsistent with the consensus of scientific and medical scholarship," Ruiz said.

"These views are dangerous and have no place in a hearing examining the origin of a pandemic that has disproportionately and overwhelmingly harmed communities of color in the United States," he continued, stating that by giving Wade a platform, Republicans were damaging the credibility of the hearing.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...e-racist-views