# Nobel winner James Watson and his statement

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**Created:** [October 19, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nobel-winner-james-watson-and-his-statement/37266 "2007-10-19T14:40:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Schema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Schema](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Schema)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nobel-winner-james-watson-and-his-statement/37266/1 "2007-10-19T14:40:54Z")

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Ya know, after reading article after article about the uproar he caused, ya’d think the guy who co-discovered the structure of DNA would have the balls to back his statement and say " Yeah, you heard right, here’s the data to prove it" instead of backing down like a coward and ALLOWING his statement to become a racial slur.

Pathetic.

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nobel-winner-james-watson-and-his-statement/37266/2 "2007-10-19T14:50:10Z")

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The fuck? What was his statement?

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**Author:** ![Schema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Schema](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Schema)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nobel-winner-james-watson-and-his-statement/37266/3 "2007-10-19T14:57:34Z")

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The fuck? What was his statement?

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> **['Race row' Nobel winner suspended - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/19/uk.race/index.html)**
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> Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.

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The controvery began with an October 14 interview Watson gave to the Sunday Times, which quoted him 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.”

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**Author:** ![cdvma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cdvma](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cdvma)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nobel-winner-james-watson-and-his-statement/37266/4 "2007-10-19T16:10:54Z")

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Nothing new from this guy.

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nobel-winner-james-watson-and-his-statement/37266/5 "2007-10-19T17:23:06Z")

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“In 2003 Watson suggested that stupidity was a genetic disease that should be treated.”  
:tup: