
James Watson, founder of the DNA structure and 1962 Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize winner, talks during his conference called "Mi vida inmersa en el ADN," or "My life immerse on the DNA," at the beginning of the X International Medicine advances Congress, in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 21 February 2008.
Watson, who discovered DNA's double helix structure alongside Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin in the 1950s, said that genes cause a difference on IQ tests between blacks and whites, in a recent PBS documentary "American Masters: Decoding Watson."
The leaders of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island said in a statement his comments were "reprehensible, unsupported by science."














Comment: Were Watson's comments actually racist? They certainly seem to walk the line. But if there is an actual biological basis for IQ, shouldn't that be something that is talked about rather than simply stripping titles from anyone who dares to bring it up?
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