Eugenics--the Other Frontier

October 18, 2007 (LPAC) -- James Watson-- the American who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine of 1962 with Briton Francis Crick for discovering the spiral DNA structure--lashed out, again, with his pseudo-scientific racism, in an interview with the Sunday Times of Oct. 14, and covered in the Independent and today's French daily Liberation. Watson said 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."

Watson came to Britain to present his new book "Avoid Boring People: Lessons From A Life In Science," where he writes, "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of people geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so." Watson has never made a big secret of his racism but these views rarely reached the media. In 1997 he told the press that a woman should have the right to abort if genetic tests determined the child would be a homosexual. Watson also claims that beauty can be genetically manufactured. "People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great."

How do you tell if you are talking to a eugenicist?  Just say 'billions of Africans' and see if they bring up Al Gore's global warming hoax. LaRouche's science of physical economy is not founded on such British-styled racism.  Actually, it is imperative, that, through scientific and technological progress, Africa flourish with billions of living individuals.

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