Friday, October 19, 2007

enhanced bigotry

Unfortunately, James Watson, of the Watson & Crick duo who won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of DNA secrets, has recently made public his theory that certain races are in fact more intelligent than others. His theory is all the more distressing as it is rooted, correctly or not, in genetic distinctions. All the more reason why everyone on this planet needs to read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.