real life wrote:wandeljw wrote:Where is the science, RL? Even Watson says there is no basis in science.
He said there is no basis in science for the statement that was
falsely attributed[/b] to him, and that others had falsely
inferred[/b] , i.e. that 'Africans were less intelligent' or that ' Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior'.
He did not disavow
his[/b] statement, rather he reinforced it.
Fittingly, ABC headlined Dr Watson's retirement today with this misstatement:
from
http://www.abcnews.com
Quote:DNA Scientist in Racial Flap Retires
DNA scientist who said that Europeans are smarter than Africans retires.
It is a 'front page' headline, which means if you go to the story itself, a different headline appears.
Another network published this falsehood:
from
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21453894/
Quote:Watson told a British newspaper that there is scientific proof that Africans are genetically inferior.
You can count on the media to get it wrong.
What Watson said in his book "Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science" was:
Quote:"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically," he writes. "Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
And what evolutionist could possibly take issue with that?
I haven't seen any who could dispute this statement from an evolutionary point of view, rather than an emotional or political one.
Now for those of us who don't believe in evolution it is apparent that the whole issue is one that evolutionists would rather not discuss unless they can ignore the implications.