He is sorry......he didn´t mean it!
Fine, he needed to be......of course, this apology does not change what we said in our previous article.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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A Nobel prize-winning geneticist who sparked a furore after claiming that black people were less intelligent than white people moved to quell the row last night with an apology.
James Watson, 79, who won the Nobel prize for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, told an audience in London that he was mortified by the public response after claiming that African and Caribbean workers were demonstrably less able than white ones.
His apology comes after his words were condemned by a government minister and members of Britain’s scientific community, and he was banned from appearing at the Science Museum in London. The row was started by an interview last weekend when Dr Watson was quoted as saying 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”.
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