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I completely agree. It's getting rather tiresome with all the politicization, which cannot be denied at this point. Some of the claims made by the media regarding this study have been outright bizarre and should rightly be scrutinized. The strawman made in the press and from some of the scientists about the supposed "uniformly blonde, blue-eyed, tall group of Nordic warriors" is completely ridiculous. People seriously exaggerate how widespread such ideas are in the modern world, aside from some fringe-circles on the Internet. Nobody with a functioning intellect who set their foot in a Northern European country ever believed such a thing, not even the Nazi-ideologues of the 30's. But instead of striving for some objectivity, the media seems to have gone off completely on the opposite end. The worst of the offenders will now have you believe that blonde hair hardly existed in Scandinavia during the VA, which is completely silly and seriously misleading. Having said that, I'll hold off on commenting more on phenotype until I have seen pigmentation-data on the individual samples in detail.
And when you try to set the record straight people accuse you of being a butthurted Nordicist who cries over swarthy looking Vikings. What some people fail to understand is the fact that when the researchers in that paper speak of natural selection they're referring to the last 4,000 years. Viking pigmentation allele frequencies are same as their modern Danish sample set. So there is a genetic continuity in Scandinavia that is being clouded, even obfuscated and twisted to the contrary. We live in times where everything has to fit the diversity and multiculturalism narrative. So it isn't surprising that the media won't report the fact that the original Vikings and modern Danes, Scandinavians are basically the same people. Hence, the truth is much closer to what ancient Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, medieval Europeans have known for centuries about Vikings. Therefore, I always tell people to read genetic studies with caution and not to blindly dismiss historical sources and eyewitness accounts with the notion GENES don't lie. Genes don't lie but people can and do mislead when using questionable methods. To be continued it's really late and I have to log out now.
@Angela I'll post the names of the blond Italians domani.