DNA Pioneer: Africans are less intelligent

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.

James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.

The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade.

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece

>>4

That's why any air agency worth its salt assists more in building infrastructure. Food drives are for immediate assistance in situations such as famines, then they work on supplying the factors lacking in successful food production.

And remember, it's a tad more difficult to grow food in Equatorial Africa than in your windowsill. Crops fail because of drought, not lack of work.

"Give a man a fish, and he will eat for an evening. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for the rest of his life."

Added bonus for essential fish oils.

>>11

'Can live off', perhaps, but not for a long time. The average male requires at least 2500-3000 calories, women slightly less. Go down into 1000 calories/day, and you're getting into weight loss territory. And not the 'good kind'.

>>15

'The respected journal Science wrote in 1990: "To many in the scientific community, Watson has long been something of a wild man, and his colleagues tend to hold their collective breath whenever he veers from the script."' (from above article)

>>22

Bush Administration? Just because the West has more elaborate political institutions, does not make them any better.