'Racist' expert's talk called off in UK

LONDON: London's Science Museum has cancelled a talk by a Nobel prize-winning geneticist who suggested black people were less intelligent than white people.

Dr James Watson, winner of a Nobel prize for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, had been due to speak at the museum on Friday.

Watson, an American, sparked uproar by telling Britain's Sunday Times newspaper that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospects 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."

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com