Why Don’t You Sit This Next One Out…Stop Talking For A While
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.”
Snap.
Everyone knows Watson always has been and always will be a jackass. I have no doubt that he got a few glasses of wine in him and shot off his mouth the way everyone says he did. Whatever. I guess there will always be people in the world who think they’re better than everybody else.