DNA Discoverer, Retires After Race Remark

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Watson, DNA Discoverer, Retires After Race Remark

James Watson, winner of the Nobel Prize as co-discoverer of DNA's molecular structure, retired as chancellor of New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory amid a controversy over racial remarks.

The lab suspended Watson from his position earlier this month after he questioned the intelligence of Africans during a book tour. Watson announced his decision to retire and leave the lab's board in an e-mail.

``Closer now to 80 than 79, the passing on of my remaining vestiges of leadership is more than overdue,'' Watson said in the e-mail. ``The circumstances in which this transfer is occurring, however, are not those which I could ever have anticipated or desired.''

Watson was quoted Oct. 14 in the Times of London saying 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.''

Watson apologized in a speech to a private audience at the Royal Society in London, said Kate Farquhar-Thomson, a spokeswoman for Oxford University Press. Watson said the controversy over his remarks has focused him on the moral values passed on to him by his mother and father.

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1. Maybe

If those in Africa got fed and sheltered and educated, they would do better on his tests. This is really sad,I live on LI, and Cold Spring Harbor Lab is a great place.

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2. The day we move pass an individual's race

to 'place' them in some caste system we will be able to solve our communal needs.

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3. sort of the idiot savant type, isn't he?

Out of his field of specialty, he appears quite uneducated.

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4. An effort to have a Limbag clone with a Phd?

Nothing goes into print or made available for our consumption via MSM media without the express approval of the puppet masters.