Nobel laureates say the darnedest things
As you've probably heard, Jim Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA (with Francis Crick and really with Rosalind Franklin too), said a not-nice thing:
He says that he is “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�, and I know that this “hot potato� is going to be difficult to address. His hope is that everyone is equal, but he counters that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true�.
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