"Dr. James Watson" by Ace Preston

Dr. James Watson's complete D.N.A. blueprint chart taken @ John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Photo & following statement is from Ace Preston's Criminology Series emphasizing that "now science not a jury decides on guilt. We have been convicted by machines not man".

DR. JAMES WATSON: Controversy statements claiming links between race and intelligence:

On October 14, 2007, a biographical article written by one of Watson's former assistants, Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe, appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine of his soon to be released memoir "Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science".
Watson was quoted as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" as "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing [IQ and Standardized testing] says not really."

Hunt-Grubbe stated that Watson's "hope" was "everyone is equal" but quoted him as having said "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true." Furthermore, she suggested that Watson believed "you should not discriminate on the basis of colour..there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level."

"there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples 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."

"I have always fiercely defended the position that we should base our view of the world on the state of our knowledge, on fact, and not on what we would like it to be. This is why genetics is so important. For it will lead us to answers to many of the big and difficult questions that have troubled people for hundreds, if not thousands, of years"

"Science is not here to make us feel good. It is to answer questions in the service of knowledge and greater understanding."

"We do not yet adequately understand the way in which the different environments in the world have selected over time the genes which determine our capacity to do different things. The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity. It may well be. But simply wanting this to be the case is not enough. This is not science.
To question this is not to give in to racism. This is not a discussion about superiority or inferiority, it is about seeking to understand differences, about why some of us are great musicians and others great engineers."

Watson has repeatedly supported genetic screening and genetic engineering in public lectures and interviews, arguing that stupidity is a disease and the "really stupid" bottom 10% of people should be cured. He has also suggested that beauty could be genetically engineered, saying "People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great."
"If you could find the gene which determines sexuality and a woman decides she doesn't want a homosexual child, well, let her."

"That's why you have Latin lovers. You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient."

"some people want to believe that evolution stopped 100,000 years ago." He stated that he did not agree with this view and that human differences are not trivial."

Watson resigned from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...

Following exempts from Make a Wish Foundation:

"I wish to receive a letter from Dr. James Watson.'

Ryo, an 18-year old young adult who lives in Hiroshima, is currently afflicted with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Due to his illness, he became interested in the study of DNA and hereditary diseases. Upon his research he came across the name of Dr. James Watson, who discovered the spiral structure of DNA. The more he read about Dr. Watson and his breakthrough research, the more he wanted to contact Dr. Watson himself.

Not knowing how to go about contacting Dr. Watson, Ryo contacted Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Japan. His wish was to write a letter to Dr. Watson, and hopefully, receive a reply. He wrote a letter (click to view) in English introducing himself and asked for a letter of encouragement from the respected researcher.

To Ryo’s surprise, he promptly received a reply from Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson wrote to Ryo with words of encouragement. These kind words were more than Ryo had expected.

As a high school student, Ryo had been studying very hard to gain acceptance to a college. Unfortunately, he was turned down by his first choice because their facilities are old and are not wheelchair accessible. This was very discouraging to a young man who dreams of doing meaningful research like Dr. James Watson. Just about this time, he received the letter from Dr. Watson, which gave him hope and encouragement. The letter has given him the determination to never give up and pursue his goals.

Understandably, Dr. Watson is a very busy man, but because he took the time to respond to this young man’s letter, he was able to change Ryo’s attitude. This was a much needed change for him, but it could have only been possible because of the kindness of Dr. James Watson.

"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

- Rachel Carson

Mussolini's rejection of the importance of race during his antagonism towards Hitler contradicted his own earlier statements about race in which he emphasized the importance of race:

When the city dies, the nation—deprived of the young life—blood of new generations—is now made up of people who are old and degenerate and cannot defend itself against a younger people which launches an attack on the now unguarded frontiers... This will happen, and not just to cities and nations, but on an infinitely greater scale: the whole White race, the Western race can be submerged by other coloured races which are multiplying at a rate unknown in our race.

—Benito Mussolini, 1928

"Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

—Benito Mussolini 1933