Tag: James Watson

  • I have deep sympathy for the concern that genetic discoveries could be misused to justify racism. But as a geneticist I also know that it is simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among “races.”

  • Racial Medicine: Not So Fast The Daily Beast 2008-08-19 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters Next time you want to start a bar fight, proclaim to everyone within earshot that “race is not real; it is just a social and cultural construct and has no biological validity.” Then duck before you get punched…