Thursday, October 18, 2007

Proof that a Nobel Prize can Still make you Dumber than a sack of bricks

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/18/science.race/

The discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA is no doubt one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in the history of humanity. Even after 50 years we are still benefiting in many ways with genetic somethings and blahs. Well Dr. Watson, American scientist, and one of those to make that discovery has decided to spew out nonsense about his ideas of evolution and intelligence. What are his claims? Why that some how those of African descent are less intelligent than people from other parts of the world. He says they did some testing to find this out and that it should be perfectly obvious to anyone that he is correct. That somehow intelligence is based on geographic location. This might be one of the most ridiculous, ludicrous, preposterous (and many more words ending with -ous) statements I have ever heard. Gee do you think maybe they tested lower cause they don't billions of dollars invested in an education system? Do you think maybe it's because there is no Oxford equivalent in Botswana? No! Rather than blame the Europeans who came in and raped the lands of Africa for their own benefits, leaving in their wake a system of corrupt warlords who do nothing for their people. Instead let's blame the fact that they just aren't smart enough to figure out what's going on in the world. Why accept any sort of responsibility when you can blame evolution? Yeah.... I guess that by giving them an IQ test (probably in English) is a good enough measure of their intelligence. Who needs actual proof when you can just say, "studies have shown" (the go-to phrase for people who want to legitimize their stupid theories). We might as well blame everything on evolution. I should be able to punch people without consequence because I am more evolved, or... I only have one wisdom tooth so I should get a 50% discount on my taxes, cause I am the future. Stupid... stupid.... stupid.

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