Quote:
Originally Posted by slapass
So the guy is a racist and too smart/dumb to shut up about it?
|
"Mr Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for uncovering the double helix structure of DNA, sparked an outcry in 2007 when he suggested that people of African descent were inherently less intelligent than white people."
?Because I was an ?unperson? I was fired from the boards of companies.
Mr Watson ? who insisted he was ?not a racist in a conventional way? ? said it had been ?stupid? of him to not realise that his comments on the intelligence of African people would end up in an article.
?I apologise . . . [the journalist] somehow wrote that I worried about the people in Africa because of their low IQ ? and you?re not supposed to say that.?
In 2007, the Sunday Times ran an interview with Dr Watson in which he said 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 newspaper people wanted to believe that everyone was born with equal intelligence but that those ?who have to deal with black employees find this not true?.
The guy is a pure scientist, no diplomacy:
James Watson, DNA discoverer says Irish downfall is not alcohol but ignorance - IrishCentral.com
"the elderly Nobel prizewinner was asked to clarify comments he made in the US last month when he said the Irish curse was not alcohol, but ignorance."
"Professor Watson also courted controversy when he made disparaging remarks about overweight job candidates. According to the Daily Mail he said 'Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.'"