http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/18/nobel.apology/index.html
“To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly. That is not what I meant. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief,” he said.
His comments?
“all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really.”
Watson also asserted there was no reason to believe different races separated by geography should have evolved identically, and he said that while he hoped everyone was equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true.”
Covener | 19-Oct-07 at 10:29 pm | Permalink
Ugh, how much of a d-bag is the freakonomics guy?