'Race row' Nobel winner suspended

[Liberal_in_LA]

I've been off the internet for most of this week. This issue may have been discussed to death since it broke but I don't see any recent threads.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/19/uk.race/index.html

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.

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During a lecture tour in 2000, he suggested there might be links between skin color and sexual prowess and between a person's weight and their level of ambition.