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October 18th, 2007
As a sociologist, there are 85,643 things wrong…
by Jeff Guhin

Just to prove nobody’s smart all-around.

 

James Watson provoked widespread outrage with his comments to The Sunday Times, which quoted the 79-year-old American as 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.”

He told the paper he hoped that everyone was equal, but added: “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”

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