No idea what intelligence would have to do with anything... he deciphered the double-helix in the 1960's, and yet you smear him as 'not smart'. Right.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/science/19watson.html
James D. Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel prize for deciphering the double-helix of DNA, apologized “unreservedly” yesterday for comments reported this week suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
In an interview published Sunday in The Times of London, Dr. Watson is quoted as saying that while “there are many people of color who are very talented,” he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of 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,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.
In a statement given to The Associated Press yesterday, Dr. Watson said, “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said. There is no scientific basis for such a belief.”
Hmmm... he doesn't
sound like a raging racist... but maybe I'm only reading what I want to read here...
And;
“I deeply apologize for the statements attributed to me in the January 2007 issue of Esquire magazine. The bigoted remarks do not reflect, in any way, my beliefs or my life history. They do not reflect the values taught to me by my father. The cause of these remarks was my shortsighted comparison of criticism, which I wholeheartedly endorse, to bigotry which I wholeheartedly oppose. I know these words were hurtful and I apologize for the hurt they have caused and the embarrassment they have brought to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and its supporters. I know a great deal about molecular biology but obviously not enough yet about the sensitivities of the human heart.”
http://www.cshl.edu/public/releases/07_esquire.html
Clearly this man is scum of the earth, lets all pile on!
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Pretty crazy statement. It seems you do not not have be smart in order to win a nobel piece prize.
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Guess you have to be smart in order to know that he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.