Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Can you revoke a Nobel prize?

James Watson has always been an asshole. This shit proves it.
One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an
extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were
less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of
reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion.
First of all, Jim, there are a lot of factors that determine intelligence. And there are different kinds of intelligence. The trouble with you scientists is that youre always trying to reduce the irreducible to what you think is the most basic component, in this case, the gene. What about poverty? Malnutrition? Corruption in governments such that not enough resources are spent on education? And what do you think about Asians? Are we inferior to you Westerners, too?

What a crock of pseudoscience.


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