why that was nice

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

The Science Museum last night cancelled a talk by Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr James Watson after he was accused of making “racist” comments implying Africans were not as intelligent as whites.

DNA pioneer Dr Watson, who discovered the double helix with Briton Francis Crick, has been roundly condemned for 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”.

The 79-year-old American was due to talk at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre on Friday but last night a spokesman said Dr Watson’s comments had gone “beyond the point of acceptable debate”

He announced the Musuem was cancelling the sold-out talk as a result.

On Tuesday night the Dana Centre had coincidentally hosted a debate entitled “Scientific Racism: A history”.

Dr Watson, who flew into Britain to promote a new book, has also provoked uproar by saying the assumption that different racial groups shared “equal powers of reason” was backed by “no firm reason”.

His comments have been fiercely attacked by fellow scientists, anti-racism campaigners and politicians.

Neourobiologist Prof Steven Rose of the Open University, a founder member of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, said such “racist” comments were also “genetic nonsense”.

“He should recognise that statements of this sort have racist functions and are to be deeply, deeply regretted,” he said.

“Making statements of that sort is certainly a great day for the British National Party but it’s a sad day for scientists and racial harmony.”

Dr Watson has courted controversy before, saying darker-skinned people have a higher *** drive and that women should hypothetically have the right to abort fetuses that “may have a tendency to become homosexual”.

He has also backed genetic screening.

Prof Stevens thought the 79-year-old American was stirring up trouble to raise publicity for his new book, entitled 'Avoid Boring People’.

He said: “He doesn’t need to do it. He had a distinguished reputation as a molecular biologist and he should keep out of areas in which he is not well qualified.”

No evidence that claimed to find people of African descent were less intelligent than Europeans or other racial groups had stood up to scientific scrutiny, he stressed.

achievement making such baseless, unscientific and extremely offensive comments. I am sure the scientific community will roundly reject what appear to be Dr Watson’s personal prejudices.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/17/nwatson217.xml

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

well duh, everyone knows that

 

[04_edge 10+ year member]

i dont understand why this couldnt be true.

just like certain breeds of dogs are better at different things then others I.E. learning, strength, companionship....

why could the same not be said for different races?

im not trying to be rascist but it COULD be a possibility, and honestly id like to see a study done with it......

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i dont understand why this couldnt be true.
just like certain breeds of dogs are better at different things then others I.E. learning, strength, companionship....

why could the same not be said for different races?

im not trying to be rascist but it COULD be a possibility, and honestly id like to see a study done with it......

Why not just go burn a cross in some black families lawn you racist.

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

wtf is with that tie?

Don't be hating on my turkey fail tan feather tie....

I gotta represent the wild turkey, yo.

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

i dont understand why this couldnt be true.
just like certain breeds of dogs are better at different things then others I.E. learning, strength, companionship....

why could the same not be said for different races?

im not trying to be rascist but it COULD be a possibility, and honestly id like to see a study done with it......

cause animals are too different within their species than humans.

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

deerhunt for mod....turkey tie included

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

Plus, any study done of that nature would have to take into consideration equal levels of opportunity and privilege, since typically whites have a higher percentage of people raised with the tools and guidance to "become smart".

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

Plus, any study done of that nature would have to take into consideration equal levels of opportunity and privilege, since typically whites have a higher percentage of people raised with the tools and guidance to "become smart".

especially

 

[85Caprice4d 10+ year member]

if blacks arent as smart as whites, it is because of the oppression. the learning systems arent curved towards blacks, and that isnt their fault. I dont doubt its not true, but it is our faults for it being this way:crap:

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

No, I think in this day & age that would just attract more attention to you.

doubt it.......... black ppl love "the hood"

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

I think all of that shit is not incorrect, and frankly I agree with it as a THEORY. But as soon as you put a politician in charge of all of that spending and taxation you are asking to be ****ed in the ***.

If we had nothing but reasonable people in office--people that wanted to improve society and economic security for the nation/state/etc--instead of these attention ***** rich people who just want to WIN so they can add a notch of success to their belt that can hover around them at dinner parties, I would consider so-called liberalism a great idea.

But the fact is theoretical goodwill becomes moral manipulation that is just as corrupt as anything else you put our government in charge of handling properly.

 

[85Caprice4d 10+ year member]

oh yeah they're cool //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif
btw, i'm 60% black

do u like me?

 

[Lingerfelt 10+ year member]

if blacks arent as smart as whites, it is because of the oppression. the learning systems arent curved towards blacks, and that isnt their fault. I dont doubt its not true, but it is our faults for it being this way:crap:

Aren't curved towards blacks? So are you saying there is a difference?

 

[Decado2 10+ year member]

This thread is supposed to be funny right, or are all of you racist's.