A moment, please, for James Watson -- let's all pour a 40 in remembrance of his place as co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Nobel laureate and his pushing the boundaries of genetics as chancellor of New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In an email, Watson addressed his cohorts thusly:
"Closer now to 80 than 79, the passing on of my remaining vestiges of leadership is more than overdue...the circumstances in which this transfer is occurring, however, are not those which I could ever have anticipated or desired.''
Circumstances? What circumstances?
Watson was quoted Oct. 14 in the Times of London 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.''
Ooooh, those circumstances.
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