James Watson Had a Chance to Salvage His Reputation on Race. He Made Things Worse.
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 10, 2023
It has been more than a decade since James D. Watson, a founder of modern genetics, landed in a kind of professional exile by suggesting that black people are intrinsically less intelligent than whites.
In 2007, Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, told a British journalist that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect . . .
