Should Neanderthals Even be in the same Genus as We are?

This researcher says "no", and he gives a lot of good reasons, He also gives some interesting history about the classification of Neanderthals. There was considerable support for placing them in a different genus until World War II. At that point, he claims that Hitler's talk of a "master race" led to social and political pressure for scientists to go the other way- to lump everything they found in together. So he implies the decision was a political one, not a scientific one. If we based our classification of hominids on the same standards we used for other creatures, Jeff Schwartz says most of them, even some classified as "Archaic Homo Sapiens", would not even be in the same genus that we are.

The science media's big push to repeat the false idea that Neanderthals were very much like us also ties in to transhumanist ideas. That is, there is nothing special about mankind and if we have any ethical obligations at all it is to change humans into something better- to improve on the blind creator that is naturalism. 

I found this history of interest. What science is supposed to do is make finer and finer distinctions. What it does now in the case of hominids is to blur those distinctions. This is a sign that politics has infested the science. It isn't reasonable to "trust the science" when it has been tainted by political agendas. 

Kings from ancient times used to hire men to be priests, dress them in robes and speaking in the name of the gods they would support what the rulers who hired them really wanted.

But those were primitive times. Now days the state hires men to be 'scientists', dresses them in labcoats and degrees, and they speak in the name of science to support what the rulers that hired them really wanted.

For some reason, one of the things they seem to want science to say is that humans are not special, that other hominids were basically the same as us. They ignore a category that the ancients had of creatures that were like us, interested in us, but yet distinct from us.

Schwartz says that based on the fossil differences, not even many of these things that are considered "archaic Homo Sapiens Sapiens" should not be in our genus, much less Neanderthals. This is something I've said myself. Not even many of those so-called "archaic modern humans" were in our lineage. Humanity isn't 6,000 years old, but it isn't 106,000 years old either. We are a distinct population which appears relatively recently. I urge you to read his whole article, linked at the top, for details. 

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