Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims

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One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people. James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provoked outrage with his comments, made ahead of his arrival in Britain today.

More fierce criticism of the eminent scientist is expected as he embarks on a number of engagements to promote a new book ‘Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science’. Among his first commitments is a speech to a London audience at the Science Museum on Friday. The event is sold out.

Dr Watson, who runs one of America’s leading scientific research institutions, made the controversial remarks in an interview in The Sunday Times.


The 79-year-old geneticist 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 said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”.

He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because “there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”. He writes that “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.

He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade.

The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission is studying Dr Watson’s remarks “in full”.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said today: “It is sad to see a scientist of such achievement making such baseless, unscientific and extremely offensive comments.

“I am sure the scientific community will roundly reject what appear to be Dr Watson’s personal prejudices. These comments serve as a reminder of the attitudes which can still exist at the highest professional levels.”

Dr Watson was hailed as achieving one of the greatest single scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century when he worked at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s, forming part of the team which discovered the structure of DNA.

He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine with his British colleague Francis Crick and New Zealand-born Maurice Wilkins.


He has served for 50 years as a director of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory on Long Island, considered a world leader in research into cancer and genetics.

Dr Watson is no stranger to controversy. He has been reported in the past saying that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual.

In addition, he has suggested a link between skin colour and sex drive, proposing a theory that black people have higher libidos.

He also claimed that beauty could be genetically manufactured, saying: “People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”


Commenting on Dr Watson’s current views about race, Steven Rose, a professor of biological sciences at the Open University, said: “This is Watson at his most scandalous. He has said similar things about women before but I have never heard him get into this racist terrain.

He added: “If he knew the literature in the subject he would know he was out of his depth scientifically, quite apart from socially and politically.”

A spokeswoman for the Science Museum said it was looking into “things” concerning the security of the event on Friday.

She said: “This kind of thing always generates debate.”
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Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims - Times Online
 
Here and here, he apologizes about what he said and that he was surprised that he was quoted to make him look like that. Here, it says he got suspended from the US research lab.
 
RedFox said:
Here and here, he apologizes about what he said and that he was surprised that he was quoted to make him look like that. Here, it says he got suspended from the US research lab.
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Good call.

But one thing remains fact is that Blacks are far superior to other races when it comes to sports.
 
Not just sports, lumbingmi. Look at Martin Luther King Jr....he was one of the main leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement. And, even he was famous for givin' his speech, " I have a Dream ". He was givin' his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means before he was assassinated in 1968. His name is still around today to honor him. :)
 
Interesting especially since my husband is more intelligent than I am and he is black and I am white. :whistle:
 
lumbingmi said:
Good call.

But one thing remains fact is that Blacks are far superior to other races when it comes to sports.
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No. Equestrian sports? Ice skating? Swimming? Tennis? Gymnastics? Soccer? Rugby? Volleyball? How many sports exist? Thousands maybe. Some black people are better than some white people in some sports. Others no.

I have a black friend who is very overweight, short, so funny, and terrible at any sport. He laughs and tells white people he is professional baseketball player to joke. Some white people think he is serious! :laugh2:
 
lumbingmi said:
Good call.

But one thing remains fact is that Blacks are far superior to other races when it comes to sports.
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That, my friend, is as much of a stereotype as saying Black people are less intelligent, or deaf people are all good lip readers!
 
Come on,,, that is the most stupid thing I ever heard. Black people is just as smart as any race. Any race is smart. It obviosly some idiot get the wrong picture how they view black people intelligent for the wrong reasons. My motto is "Everybody in the world of different races are equally intelligent".
 
This makes me wondering if he is really Heath Austin? The one who banned from here for similiar reason.

I think this thread isn't belong here in AllDeaf, but it is up to MOD.
 
Oh, that's not nice.

I can't live without black people in world.
 
lumbingmi said:
Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims - Times Online
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Oh goooood grief! why did you have to print this in here?
it is just so stupid and disgusting...you gotta realize there
are all kinds of people in here! I cant believe you got a lot
of nerve to post this in here..No, im not black but still all the
same, it is not a good taste to do this.

And another thing, lumbingmi, i do find your banner pretty disrespectul
to us women, at least to me! That shows you have no respect for
women, either!
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I agreed with you, and hate to say, his banner really turns me off and that is one of ugly chick.

Defee said:
And another thing, lumbingmi, i do find your banner pretty disrespectul
to us women, at least to me! That shows you have no respect for
women, either!
:squint:
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Im quoting one member few posts above again to show that claims are false.

RedFox said:
Here and here, he apologizes about what he said and that he was surprised that he was quoted to make him look like that. Here, it says he got suspended from the US research lab.
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Nobel-winning biologist apologizes for remarks about blacks - CNN.com

Nobel scientist who sparked race row says sorry — I didn't mean it - Times Online

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lab suspends DNA pioneer Watson
 
Defee said:
Lol! yeah, thats right, she got ugly bony azz, eww!
and i want that stupid banner G O N E! grrrrr!
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Do you know that you can turn my signature off with feature in this messageboard? Or simply press ignore button. :ugh3:
 
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