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Thanks to N’Jaila Rhee, who posted an article from Psychology Today that looks like it has since been taken down from their website.  It was called Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women, and it was written by Satoshi Kanazawa, who, as most of you know, is a prominent evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.  I unfortunately didn’t get a chance to read it on the original site, but I saw tons of comments and blog posts by people who had, and I have no reason to doubt that it was up there.   Being the age of the internet, someone copied it before it went down.  You can read it here, and I’m going to repost it below (I think I can legally do this since it’s no longer available at the source.  If not, I’ll take it down.).  Kanazawa gets all “scientific,” and his “science” becomes his fact.  He doesn’t stop to think that the social sciences rarely if ever provide universal truths, and yet he accepts them as such: