smooth wombat's Journal: Dr. Watson steps down over evolutionary comments

After making one-too-many comments regarding the evolutionary development of humans, Nobel winner Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA, has stepped down from his post at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island.

His most recent comments regarded the supposed difference in intelligence between blacks and other races. In essence, his comments intimated that their intelligence is not equal to other races and that people who have worked with blacks find this true.

Dr. Watson has made other comments which have gotten him in hot water. Those include:

If a gene for homosexuality were discovered, women should be allowed to have an abortion if their unborn child was found to have the gene.

He has suggested there might be links between skin color and sexual prowess, and between a person's weight and their level of ambition.

He considers stupidity a disease and should be treated as such.

Stupidity a disease? Sure, why not. We have plenty of people in this country to do studies on to prove or disprove this line of thought.

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[DisownedSky]

Creationists are going to use this to "prove" that "Darwinism" (favorite straw bogeyman)is racist and sexist.

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[smooth wombat]

Fine by me so long as I get to remind them of the continuing sexist and racist remarks made by people spouting religion or people justifying killing someone because "God" told them to do so.