Steve Mirsky, of the Scientific American podcast Science Talk, on James Watson’s recent comments regarding race and intelligence:

Watson, in fact, made some pretty stupid comments about Africans having lower intelligence than Europeans. He later said, ‘I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said.’ Watson knows a lot about some things; he also knows very little about other things that he nevertheless expounds upon. For example, in 1998, Watson said that cancer would be cured in two years. According to thousands of reports just issued in hundreds of journals, there’s still cancer.”

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