Usually we are cautioned not to kill the messenger, but in the case of James Watson’s remarks, it seems a little disturbing to me that people are trying to kill the message along with the messenger. The problem with this is that it can very well preempt and halt all scientific research investigating differences in [...]
It is always interesting how we can gain some more perspective and judgement when an issue has settled down a little. The James Watson issue must have been one of the most blogged about and talked issue in the last three days. Like that of many others, my instant reaction was one of immense disdain [...]
…they may wish to spice up their public image with something provocative. Well, it seems that the codiscoverer of DNA James Watson has always had the wrong definition of “provocative”, and this time he seems to have really done it and positively inflamed everyone with his comments about people of African descent being less smarter [...]