Top scientist 'mortified' over race row comments
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites said Friday he was "mortified" at the comments, and suggested he was misquoted.
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The biologist had ignited an uproar with comments about the intelligence of people of African descent.
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By LYNN ELBER LOS ANGELES - A barrage of racial epithets unleashed by former &quot;Seinfeld&quot; star Michael Richards during a stand-up comedy routine drew condemnation from Richards' industry colleagues.
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A Nobel prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence is no longer welcome to deliver a lecture at London's Science Museum, the museum said Wednesday.
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J. Michael Bailey is at the center of one of the most contentious and personal social science controversies in recent memory.
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Scientists express concerns the new education minister's religious views might hamper scientific research.
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Toothpaste squeezed by a flunky. Supper steamed with one brand of water. Oh, and an Â£11m income. This is the man who presses a world view on us all - and whose latest embarrassment, of many, reveals that
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The president of Harvard University angers women academics by saying men may naturally be better at science.
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British black scientists, engineers and technologists are vastly under-represented in their chosen fields, says a leading commentator.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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James Watson, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who said that black Africans are not as intelligent as whites, has a significant amount of African DNA in his own genome.
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Nobel Prize-winning DNA authority Dr. James Watson cut short a book tour in Britain on Friday and returned to the United States over racially insensitive comments attributed to him in a British newspaper.
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites, has pulled out of a book tour and gone home, his publicist said Friday.
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James Watson, famous for DNA research but widely condemned for recent comments about intelligence levels among blacks, retired Thursday from his post at a prestigious research institution.
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A remark from a U.S. Senate candidate that black males have a "genetic predisposition" for a lower life expectancy has created a new furor in what has been an especially tight &#151; and nasty &#151; campaign.
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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.
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A leading museum has cancelled a talk by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed that black people are less intelligent than whites, it said Thursday.