Originally Posted by
madfranks
That is an excellent point. Dr. Watson (who discovered the double helix properties of DNA) lost all of his academic credentials and prizes when he regretfully stated that he is not optimistic about the prospects of Africa, because the facts show that genetically, they are not as smart as the rest of us. A fact that is not rebutted, but is shunned and bullied instead.
On a side note, I had never known this before, but in researching poor Dr. Watson, I learned that the prevailing academic explanation for poverty in Africa is nurture, not nature. As in, their IQs are generally much lower because they don't have all of the benefits and privileges of modern civilization. It's the stupidest answer I can think of, and I'm stunned that this is the prevailing explanation, because it begs the question of how did Europeans build Western Civilization out of the same poverty Africa started with? We didn't magically start with civilization, we built it.
