Russia's Usmanov to give back Watson's auctioned Nobel medal
bbc.com
bbc.com
In 2007, the Sunday Times ran an interview with Dr Watson in which he
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”.
He told the newspaper people wanted to believe that everyone was born
with equal intelligence but that those “who have to deal with black
employees find this not true”.
It's painful to see scientists fall prey to overgeneralization from small, non-representative samples - especially when their words have influence. I'm glad Usmanov returned the medal - Watson certainly earned it for his earlier accomplishments - but I'm not surprised Watson's unable to find jobs.
Science could probably just as easily prove that consuming human infant meat is very healthy, that wouldn't make the idea any less revolting when one applies common sense.
Sigh... Ever notice how this is never put within a context? That's because it was never released, who knows why he said it and what it was related to.
That to me means someone is playing games.
Point one is considered true, re intelligence, most people in this area believe this but many won't say it out loud.
Whether it could be used re policy who knows, but people are dying in Africa, how many are dying due to rich westerners sensibilities such that they won't even discuss it?