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Even some well-educated black professionals are not immune to the odd tenets of Afrocentrism. Covering the annual convention of the black National Medical Association last summer, Andrew Skolnick, an editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association, listened in disbelief as Dr. Patricia Newton, a psychiatrist affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, waxed eloquent about the wonders of melanin. It has "one of the strongest electromagnetic field forces in the universe," she proclaimed, and was responsible not only for imparting traits that make blacks superior to other races but also for stimulating healing through movement...
...joke," she explained. "Because when you hear that bass drum ... it creates a melatonin increase surge, causing it to be released in the body, induces the opiate system -- the endorphin and enkephalin system -- and gives you a sense of well-being." From the audience, Skolnick says, "there was not a single murmur of dissent...
...braved the alien territories of the Wild West traveled in groups of families, not alone. Through the agrarian era into the modern one, Americans have continued to regard the nurturing of families as a personal issue rather than a public concern. "We have this notion," says research psychologist Arlene Skolnick of the University of California, Berkeley, "that a family is inadequate if it is not self-sufficient...
...dispense some medical advice. It might say, "This individual has a tendency toward skin cancer and should avoid overexposure to the sun." Or: "He has insufficient LDL cholesterol receptors and a proclivity to obesity, so he should begin a high-fiber, low-fat diet at age 3." Explains Mark Skolnick, a geneticist at the University of Utah: "Once you can make a profile of a person's genetic predisposition to disease, medicine will finally become largely predictive and preventive." With the profusion of such profiles will come a demand for, and laws enforcing, genetic privacy, to ensure that those with...
...eyes of many people, both white and black, it appears that the jury simply chose to nullify the evidence -- to put it aside in making their decision -- which American law allows. "The jury wanted to acquit, despite the fact that the evidence was very clear," says Jerome Skolnick, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "They could not see putting those nice, white policemen in jail...