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One of the world's top scientists, DNA pioneer Dr James Watson, has been fired from his job after he said
Africans (blacks) were less intelligent than other people.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America’s leading
scientific research institutions, has said that Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an
assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when “testing“ suggested the contrary. In his
book he seems to suggest that academia will soon, probably within 10 years or so simply have to accept what was his
perceived reality, instead of political correctness, because advances in DNA sequencing will allow the pinpointing of
genetic factors determining, say, psychopathy, schizophrenia, autism and differing intellectual abilities
This is how he puts it, “A priori, there is no firm reason to anticipate that
| the intellectual abilities of people geographically separated in their evolution
should prove to evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of
humanity will not be enough to make it so.” |
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"inherently gloomy about the prospect
of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours..."
Dr Watson
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Dr Watson went further in interview where he told The Sunday Times that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect
of Africa“ because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas
all the testing says not really“. He said there was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal but “people
who have to deal with black employees find this not true“.
The 1962 Nobel Prize jointly winner for discovering the double helix structure of DNA, is much known for his
scientific work as well as his gaffes.
However, apologizing in London, Dr Watson said: "I am mortified about what has happened.
"I can certainly understand why people, reading those words, have reacted in the ways they have.
Earlier in the week, a speech in Oxford by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist was cancelled. Dr Watson was due to give
a speech at a show organised by the Oxford University Press, at the Sheldonian Theatre last Wednesday.
Past gaffes of Dr Watson
The gaffe prone professor has previously said that black people have greater sex drives and a woman should have the
right to abort her unborn child if tests found it was destined to be gay.
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