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James Watson, a scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in the 1950s and Nobel laureate, lost honors in the laboratory he had been leading for years. Watson, 90, was the subject of racist controversy and was arrested Monday in the United States. In 2007, in an interview with the Sunday Times, he declared himself pessimistic with Africa because "all social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, while all the tests indicate that it is is not really. . He then apologized for this sentence.
In a recent documentary by PBS, Watson keeps his controversial statements. "I would have liked it to change, new knowledge would show that education is more important than nature, but I have not seen it yet." There is a difference in average between blacks and Whites in IQ tests, I would say the difference is genetic. "
After these statements, the US-led lab announced that its titles would be revoked, including those of Chancellor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, and Honorary Curator . The scientist's family said that he would not support the controversy as he was in a fragile state of health after suffering a car accident.
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