Fury at DNA Pioneer's Theory
        
            By Cahal Milmo, 
                The Independent (UK)
             | 10. 17. 2007
        
            Africans are less intelligent than Westerners
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
            One
of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an
extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were
less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of
reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion. 
  
  James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA 
  who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew 
  widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain 
  today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.
  
  The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and 
  science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards 
  African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were 
  as clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the 
  contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human 
  intelligence could be found within a decade.
  
  The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission, successor to the 
  Commission for Racial Equality, said it was studying Dr Watson's remarks "
in full". Dr...
 
 
  
 
    
    
  
   
                        
                                                                                
                 
                                                    
                            
                                  
    
  
  
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