Re: [xmca] Nobel prize talks stupid things about human intelligence

He was also horribly sexist about my aunt Rosalind Franklin in the
50's, in the original version of the Double Helix.

Shirley Franklin

On 19 Oct 2007, at 15:15, C Barker wrote:

> ABSOLUTELY.
> YOU'LL BE PLEASED TO LEARN THERE ARE PLANS FOR A PROTEST AT THIS
> MAN'S INVITATION TO SPEAK
> AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY.
> Colin B
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>>>> David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> 10/19/07 2:55 PM >>>
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7052416.stm
>
> In his Sunday Times interview, Dr James Watson was quoted as saying
> 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 was further quoted as saying that his hope was that everyone was
> equal but that "people who have to deal with black employees find
> this is not true".
>
>
>
> Just disgusting, racist, horrible...
>
> David
>
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