The Nobel Peace Prize winner for describing the double helix model of DNA as well as the head of the Human Genome Project, James D. Watson, was forced into retirement last week after he made comments alluding to a belief that people of African descent were less intelligent than those of European descent.Now the whole taking-things-out-of-context argument can be leveraged but it is slightly disconcerting that the man who ran the program that is responsible for mapping the code of all life has, if only tinges of, these beliefs. He argues that people of differing geographical locations can't be expected to develop the same which I understand but to then make the jump to the fact that intelligence is one of those differences is kind of shady in my book.
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this is totally out of context. he later goes on to say how "blacks are way smarter at basketball than whites." and "they sell and become addicted to drugs way better than us too." as a white person, i think both these statements help paint him as an unbiased individual.
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