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June 02, 2008

James Watson won’t back down on race and intelligence

The DNA Nobelist recently talked with black professor and historian Henry Louis Gates. In the wide-ranging interview, Watson throws all sorts of crap against the wall.

He claims the main part of his “dumb blacks” comment was a joke.

He still believes in “Jewish intelligence genes.”

And other nonsense.

Gates has a sidebar, with his assessment of Watson’s true standing on these issues, and calls him, finally, a “racialist.”

It’s a good description, a good and sad description of the hornblower of the famous DNA pair (Crick deserves more credit than he gets), who has a history of such statements on race-genetic issues long before the 2007 comments that got him in hot water.

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