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camelot
Barsoom
USA
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 Posted - 19/10/2007 : 01:21:03
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It is a shame really, it is his OPINION after all. Perhaps he was conversing with a certain Australian sailor from the previos forum before the interview:)
Scientist apologizes for hurtful remarks
NEW YORK - James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon made famous by his work in DNA, has set off an international furor with comments to a London newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks....
A profile of Watson in the Sunday Times Magazine of London quoted him as saying that he's "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."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_sc/controversial_scientist
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BluePatch
Alagaësía
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Posted - 25/10/2007 : 12:06:41
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That'll be me. I think I'd rather be associated with someone like Watson. Or Crick. Or Newton. Than someone whose name no one will ever rememeber.
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 25/10/2007 : 14:40:24
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| Hello NL ... Long time no hear. You okay? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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camelot
Barsoom
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2007 : 00:23:21
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Aha..out from down under.
(maybe..someone posted as camelot about a month before I joined here) |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2007 : 00:29:18
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| No Camelot, this is indeed our old friend ... and certainly not that muppet who tried to purloin your identity. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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camelot
Barsoom
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2007 : 00:59:56
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Ok. Well in that case I hope you are well too.
Yes the above news item saddened me, not because it had obvious elements of racism, but because I felt he probably needed (and deserved) a chance to explain. The axe falls quickly these days ...almost automatically when certain trigger words appear in the media. I watched with some amusement, then sadness when the president of Harvard University went down the tubes primarily for his statement that women had not excelled at the highest levels of Math and Science, and added some possible reasons for the low numbers in the field. What a mistake, the media took off with it and by the time I heard about it the break room at work it was; “The president of Harvard thinks all women are dumb as bricks, and they cant add or understand science stuff cause they’re genetically inferior and need to have babies”.
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2007 : 05:48:59
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| I agree ...funnily enough, I think everyone has the right to explain themselves before the axe is dropped, if indeed it is dropped at all. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1079 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2007 : 12:38:37
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I thought "foot in mouth" was when I said something whilst inebriated |
keep on smiling |
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camelot
Barsoom
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2007 : 00:57:14
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No dellboy..we just sound that way when we have been overserved |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1079 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2007 : 14:14:22
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keep on smiling |
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Foot in mouth disease...?