DNA PIONEER SAYS BLACKS ARE GENETICALLY LESS SMART

Watson of Watson & Crick tells UK newspaper whites are more intelligent.

James Watson, the man who along with Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, is facing backlash in Britain after claiming that black people are genetically less intelligent than whites.


In an interview with The Sunday Times to promote his new book "Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science," the 79-year-old geneticist said he was pessimistic about efforts to raise the standard of living in Africa.

“All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really,” Watson told the newspaper. He recognized that the prevailing belief was that all human groups are equal, but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."

He told the interviewer, a former student of his, that he had recently inaugurated a DNA learning center near Harlem and would like to have more minority researchers at his lab - and "just accepted a black girl" – but “there’s no one to recruit.”

As a result of his comments, the British Science Museum has cancelled the geneticist's scheduled speech.

"We know that eminent scientists can sometimes say things that cause controversy and the Science Museum does not shy away from debating controversial topics,” the spokesman told the BBC. “However, we feel Dr. Watson has gone beyond the point of acceptable debate and we are as a result cancelling his talk.”