A Nobel Prize winner
Dr James Watson has got himself into hot water with the PC brigade by suggesting that there is a connection between race, national wealth and intelligence. Predictably this has got the shouts of “
Racist” ringing loudly, although just as predictably there has been no evidence offered against his comments other than that they "
were deeply offensive" or “
irrational prejudices”.
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The remarks in an interview with
The Sunday Times, were that 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 went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that "
people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true".
