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Scientist who sparked racism row has black genes (independent.co.uk)
5 points by Dauntless on Dec 12, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Black genes? WTF?

I hope that before DNA analysis becomes mainstream, the public gets a good education about how genes aren't binary flags for what race you are.


It's sort of ironic that despite all the attention from Watson's comments, and with people crying "racism", folks still don't seem to know much abut genes and race.


This explains why Watson's remark was so stupid.


Karma?


Oh, that"s classic.




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