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Race remarks get Nobel winner in trouble
James Watson: Tests show Africans are not as intelligent as Europeans

Updated: 1:44 p.m. ET Oct 18, 2007
LONDON - London's Science Museum canceled a Friday talk by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson after the co-discoverer of DNA's structure told a newspaper that Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence.

James Watson provoked widespread outrage with his comments to The Sunday Times, which quoted the 79-year-old American as saying 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 told the paper he hoped that everyone was equal, but added: "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."

The comments drew condemnation from British lawmakers, scientists, and civil rights campaigners. On Wednesday The Independent newspaper put Watson on its front page, against the words: "Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer."

Watson, who serves as chancellor of the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was to deliver a sold-out lecture at the Science Museum, but on Wednesday night the institution said Watson's comments had gone too far and the event had been canceled.

Calls to Watson's book publisher and his office in New York were not immediately returned.

This is not the first time Watson's speaking engagements have caused a stir.

History of controversial comments
The Independent catalogued a series of controversial statements from Watson, including one in which he reportedly suggested women should have the right to have abortions if tests could determine their children would be homosexual.

In 2000 Watson shocked an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, when he advanced a theory about a link between skin color and sex drive.

His lecture, complete with slides of bikini-clad women, argued that extracts of melanin — which give skin its color — had been found to boost subjects' sex drive.

"That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture. "You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient."

Telephone and e-mail messages left with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after business hours Wednesday were not immediately returned.

Its disturbing that some ignorant people will mistake his historic role in understanding DNA structure as evidence of competence in the relationship between genetics and intelligence - and its not (evidence of such).

He's just shooting off his mouth.

OTOH, its also pretty sick that some people would like to make the act of saying such ignorant/crazy things A CRIME!

i wonder what those test would show

if they were based on life on the african continent

rather than the basic euro version of the test

after all you can set up any test to get the results you want

just a thought

but hey what do i know

killed another one

you are good at that adj4u...

i guess i leave everyone speechless

Maybe DOA?

argh.....it seems like idiots are the epidemic on the menu for the month....



make that decade......