DemonKnight Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 LONDON - London's Science Museum canceled a Friday talk by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson after the co-discoverer of DNA's structure told a newspaper that Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence. James Watson provoked widespread outrage with his comments to The Sunday Times, which quoted the 79-year-old American as saying 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 paper he hoped that everyone was equal, but added: "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true." The comments drew condemnation from British lawmakers, scientists, and civil rights campaigners. On Wednesday The Independent newspaper put Watson on its front page, against the words: "Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer." Watson, who serves as chancellor of the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was to deliver a sold-out lecture at the Science Museum, but on Wednesday night the institution said Watson's comments had gone too far and the event had been canceled. Call to Watson's book publisher and his office in New York were not immediately returned. This is not the first time Watson's speaking engagements have caused a stir. The Independent catalogued a series of controversial statements from Watson, including one in which he reportedly suggested women should have the right to have abortions if tests could determine their children would be homosexual. In 2000 Watson shocked an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, when he advanced a theory about a link between skin color and sex drive. His lecture, complete with slides of bikini-clad women, argued that extracts of melanin — which give skin its color — had been found to boost subjects' sex drive. "That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture. "You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient." Telephone and e-mail messages left with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after business hours Wednesday were not immediately returned. Wow, I wonder if he has the test statistics to back up the statement about blacks... And yes, we latinos do get more ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Wow, I wonder if he has the test statistics to back up the statement about blacks... And yes, we latinos do get more ass. Yeah...I hear that happens to all yer wimmins when they get older. Not sure I'd be bragging about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Yeah...I hear that happens to all yer wimmins when they get older. Not sure I'd be bragging about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonKnight Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 Yeah...I hear that happens to all yer wimmins when they get older. Not sure I'd be bragging about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Discovered DNA ..like that's a big deal I know someone whose tongue is so long he does not need qtips to clean his ears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 I think everybody is exactly the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShiznit Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I don't get it, where is the controversy? Wow!!! Telling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Wow, I wonder if he has the test statistics to back up the statement about blacks...lol - like it would matter. People in today's society wouldn't accept it even if he had a mountain of evidence, because it's so extremely politically incorrect.....and PC is what people care about today, not facts n stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I love latin chicks ..Bigtime..But there shelf life is very short..Small window from hot ass to hog ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I love latin chicks ..Bigtime..But there shelf life is very short..Small window from hot ass to hog ass true but gotta admire the ones that keep themselves in shape work it baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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