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Race and intelligence

The caribbean responds to recent ignorant racist comments that claim that black people are less intelligent than whites.....

The Nation Newspaper : "THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING DNA PIONEER James Watson is certainly intelligent enough to have known that once he dared to link intelligence to race in a way that claimed Africans (Blacks) were less intelligent than Europeans, he was bound to come in for a heap of criticism, and spark anger. "


Elementary, my dear Dr Watson - blacks are not inferior - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM: "Here in Britain it is autumn. The leaves are turning brown and the nights are getting colder. And October is not just the month of falling leaves; it is also Black History month. So you might think this a very inappropriate time for some 79-year-old white professor to be digging up long disproved theories of black racial inferiority. But American scientist Dr James Watson has been all over the British newspapers with his theory that black people are less intelligent than white people."

'A ridiculous statement' - Nobel-prize winning scientist under fire for racist remark
Jamaicans yesterday dismissed claims made by DNA pioneer Dr. James Watson that black people are less intelligent than whites. In an article published in the Sunday Times in England, the 79-year-old geneticist said 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."

The Elementary Dr Watson Last week the Sunday Times published a fascinating profile of a man who made one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. James Watson is the surviving member of the most famous scientific duo of the twentieth century. In the 55 years since he and Francis Crick won a Nobel prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA, mircobiology and genetics have become two of the most competitive fields of scientific endeavour.

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