James Watson is a genius. His brilliant work on DNA won the Nobel Prize. So why is he risking his reputation by making the incendiary claim that black people are less intelligent than whites?

The Daily Mail (London, England) | October 18, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Richard Pendlebury

THE Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Dewey Watson is living proofthat genius is no guarantee against holding incendiary beliefs. In his latestpronouncement, the 79-year-old American geneticist has claimed that blackpeople are inherently less intelligent than whites.

On the eve of his arrival in Britain today to publicise a new book, Watson, whoat Cambridge University in the 1950s helped identify DNA, declared himself tobe 'gloomy about the prospect of Africa ... all our social policies are basedon the fact that their ...

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