The Father of DNA Says He Still Believes in a Link Between Race, Intelligence. His Lab Just Stripped Him of His Titles.
“The Nobel Prize-winning scientist said he still believes what he said in 2007, that “all our social policies are based on the fact that African intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really.” Five years ago, James Watson, one of the fathers of DNA, tried to sell his Nobel Prize because people thought he was a racist. Watson, who won the prize in 1962 for outlining the double-helix structure of DNA, wanted to offer penance for the comments that brought his reputation crashing down in 2007. That year, the scientist told Britain’s Sunday Times that he was “gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because he believed African intelligence was genetically lower than that of Europeans. Watson never lived the comments down, telling the Financial Times in 2014 that he believed the backlash had made him...

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