Nobel winner Watson suspended for comments
By Michael Amon
Amid an international uproar, Nobel Prize winner James Watson was suspended Thursday night by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the wake of published comments denigrating the intelligence of Africans and the equality of blacks.
The suspension comes as the renowned geneticist was roundly denounced from London to Washington as a racist for telling the Times of London that he’s “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.”
While he hopes all people are equal, Watson also told the paper, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true.”http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liwats1019,0,1054521.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines
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