Watson's London Lecture Nixed in Wake of Race Remarks

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  1. firstcav

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    LONDON — A Nobel prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence is no longer welcome to deliver a lecture at London's Science Museum, the museum said Wednesday.

    James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering DNA, drew widespread outrage when he told The Sunday Times that Africans and Europeans did not share the same brain power.

    The newspaper quoted the 79-year-old American geneticist 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."

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  3. Ronnocomot

    Ronnocomot Road Train Member

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    When should we expect him to be appearing at Columbia University in NYC.?
     
  4. firstcav

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    I don't know, but I bet Obama is thinking Hillary had something to do with this.
     
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