“No one really wants to admit I exist.”

— James D. Watson

On reactions to statements indicating differences of intelligence or perception levels in various human populations have genetic factors, widely perceived as racist, as quoted in "James Watson to sell Nobel Prize medal" by David Crow in Financial Times (28 November 2014)

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American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928

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