DNA Discoverer: Blacks Less Intelligent Than Whites

[politux]

https://www.foxnews.com/story/dna-discov...han-whites

One of the world's most eminent scientists has created a racial firestorm in Britain.

James D. Watson, 79, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine, told the Sunday Times of London 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 recognized that the prevailing belief was that all human groups are equal, but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
Acknowledging that the issue was a "hot potato," the lifelong Democrat and avowed secular humanist nonetheless said his beliefs were not an excuse to discriminate against blacks.

"There are many people of color who are very talented," said Watson, "but don't promote them when they haven't succeeded at the lower level."

He told the interviewer, a former student of his, that he had recently inaugurated a DNA learning center near Harlem, and would like to have more black researchers at his lab, "but there's no one to recruit."

Does IQ have a racial component? What do you guys think?

[dueda]

Sounds like the man is a serious researcher, but the British Empire used that in past times to justify and create discord in their colonies, specially in Africa.

[neanderthal]

I like this part of the article:


In a British television documentary in 2003, Watson advised eliminating low intelligence through gene therapy.

"If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease," said Watson, according to New Scientist magazine. "The lower 10 percent who really have difficulty, even in elementary school, what's the cause of it?

"A lot of people would like to say, 'Well, poverty, things like that.' It probably isn't," he added. "So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 percent."

He also touched upon sexual attraction in the same TV program.

"People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty," Watson said. "I think it would be great."

In 2000, he told a lecture audience at U.C. Berkeley that there was a correlation between a population's exposure to sunlight and its sex drive.

"That's why you have Latin lovers," Watson said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient."

[dueda]

He's a funny guy, but only 2% of humankind are very intelligent, yet governments don't care to identify and offer special education and welfare for them, even less the 10% that are well above average; why would then a government care to the lower 10% ?

He would make all girls intelligent and pretty? What about fit and less annoying / more reasonable too?

[neanderthal]

I wonder what Watson would think of the transgendered?  They never end up pretty.

[dueda]

Ha, the gender divergent geniuses. Since socrates it's a non-standard person fate to have an horrible life and cruel death. They* even invented a virus to kill them, but when realized the needed for the escape goats they* started researching cures and vaccines. *The invisible power factions.

[contrail]

Environment is most likely a bigger factor than race.

[dueda]

Darwin said environment shapes race, so yes, environment is bigger - But race is made by environment so the point is still possible, he mentioned a race being less adapted to mind work, not the cause (if I got it right). Also the multiple species and races are part of the environment and influence each other, it's an ecosystem.