James Watson exhibits signs of Alzheimer's

[ellid]

No joke. I really hope that these remarks insisting that blacks are less intelligent than whites are proof that his mind is going. The alternative is too vile to contemplate.

Comments

[anitaray.livejournal.com]

prince_hringabove pointed out something important, though: even if socioeconomic and "nurture" factors were controlled for, an experiment that showed definite differences between races ito intelligence (however defined) would be decried as a racist undertaking to begin with.

[persevero.livejournal.com]

True enough, I suspect. And though I would regard it as a rather futile area of scientific endeavour, I accept that there are plenty of areas of research that are only interesting and valuable to a handful of people. More important considerations are that a) there is probably only a small area of mismatch between the bell-curves, and b) most importantly of all, biology is not destiny.

Knowledge is neither good nor evil, but takes its character from how it is used.