In an interview published in the October 14 [2007] edition of The Sunday Times, Watson was quoted as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa."
"All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really," he was quoted as saying.
James Dewey Watson, 'Glimpses', University of Chicage Magazine, July-August 2007
Science celebrates a golden anniversary, review by Michael Sims of DNA, by James D. Watson with Andrew Berry, Book Page, April 2003
A Conversation with James D. Watson, interview by John Rennie, Scientific American, March 10, 2003
James Watson, Nobel Prize winner: Welcome to the Watson Wonderland; DNA genius still ruffles feathers 50 years after extraordinary discovery, by Steve Connor, The Independent, February 3, 2003
Crystallizing a Life in Science, review by Angela N. H. Creager of Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox, American Scientist, January, 2003
The Twisted Road to the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin's stunningly clear x-ray photographs elucidated the structure of DNA, but her contribution was ignored at the time, by Dean H. Hamer, Scientific American, December 2002
James D Watson should be appreciated even more that it already is. In Cold Spring Harbor, for example, everyone who he is and what he did, but it's his hometown, it's normal.
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