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Fury at DNA pioneer's theory: Africans are less intelligent than Westerners
Celebrated scientist attacked for race 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"

By Cahal Milmo
Published: 17 October 2007

One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an
extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were
less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of
reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion.

James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of
DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research
institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead
of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues
including the Science Museum in London.

The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race
and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies
towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that
black people were as clever as their white counterparts when "testing"
suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating
differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade.

The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission, successor to
the Commission for Racial Equality, said it was studying Dr Watson's
remarks " in full". Dr Watson told The Sunday Times that 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 said there
was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal but "people
who have to deal with black employees find this not true".

His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which
he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the
intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their
evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to
reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity
will not be enough to make it so."

The furore echoes the controversy created in the 1990s by The Bell
Curve, a book co-authored by the American political scientist Charles
Murray, which suggested differences in IQ were genetic and discussed
the implications of a racial divide in intelligence. The work was
heavily criticised across the world, in particular by leading
scientists who described it as a work of " scientific racism".

Dr Watson arrives in Britain today for a speaking tour to publicise
his latest book, Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science.
Among his first engagements is a speech to an audience at the Science
Museum organised by the Dana Centre, which held a discussion last
night on the history of scientific racism.

Critics of Dr Watson said there should be a robust response to his
views across the spheres of politics and science. Keith Vaz, the
Labour chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "It is sad
to see a scientist of such 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.

"These comments serve as a reminder of the attitudes which can still
exists at the highest professional levels."

The American scientist earned a place in the history of great
scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century when he worked at the
University of Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s and formed part of the
team which discovered the structure of DNA. He shared the 1962 Nobel
Prize for medicine with his British colleague Francis Crick and New
Zealand-born Maurice Wilkins.

But despite serving for 50 years as a director of the Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, considered a world leader in
research into cancer and genetics, Dr Watson has frequently courted
controversy with some of his views on politics, sexuality and race.
The respected journal Science wrote in 1990: "To many in the
scientific community, Watson has long been something of a wild man,
and his colleagues tend to hold their collective breath whenever he
veers from the script."

In 1997, he told a British newspaper that a woman should have the
right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be
homosexual. He later insisted he was talking about a "hypothetical"
choice which could never be applied. He has also suggested a link
between skin colour and sex drive, positing the theory that black
people have higher libidos, and argued in favour of genetic screening
and engineering on the basis that " stupidity" could one day be cured.
He has claimed that beauty could be genetically manufactured, saying:
"People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think
it would great."

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory said yesterday that Dr Watson could
not be contacted to comment on his remarks.

Steven Rose, a professor of biological sciences at the Open University
and a founder member of the Society for Social Responsibility in
Science, said: " This is Watson at his most scandalous. He has said
similar things about women before but I have never heard him get into
this racist terrain. If he knew the literature in the subject he would
know he was out of his depth scientifically, quite apart from socially
and politically."

Anti-racism campaigners called for Dr Watson's remarks to be looked at
in the context of racial hatred laws. A spokesman for the 1990 Trust,
a black human rights group, said: "It is astonishing that a man of
such distinction should make comments that seem to perpetuate racism
in this way. It amounts to fuelling bigotry and we would like it to be
looked at for grounds of legal complaint."