James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, talked his way into retirement by telling a London newspaper that he feared for Africa because black people aren’t as smart as whites. Watson told The Sunday Times 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 subsequently resigned his position. After he published his sequenced genome online later in the year, Nobel Prize winner Watson was found to have 16 times more genes of black origin than a typical white European.

Arbeitshypothese: Der weiße Mann, der sagt, Schwarze wären nicht so schlau, teilt einen nicht unbeachtlichen Teil seines Genoms mit der schwarzen Bevölkerung, ergo ist das was er sagt, nicht so schlau. Ehm. Erscheint das nur mir wie eine indirekte Bestätigung von Watsons Äußerungen? Oder findet da bei Wired etwa zu Weihnachten ein stattliches Flachwitzwichteln statt, von dem keiner wissen darf?