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When Colin Campbell stood before colleagues at a chemistry-department gathering last February at the University of Edinburgh, UK, it wasn’t to talk science. It was to play science. On his bagpipes.

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The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...