Brave Nobelist backs eugenics

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Interviewed in the January issue of Esquire magazine, Nobel Prize-winner James Watson (co-discoverer of the ‘double helix’ structure of DNA) courted controversy by expressing his commitment to eugenics (Newsmax, 10 i). Watson, 78 and living in Cold Harbor, New York, said his own politics had evolved from the left to libertarianism. He said he "turned against the left wing" because "they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have had bad genes." Watson complained that the poorer classes were having more children than the richer, more intelligent classes. “I think now we're in a terrible sitution where we should pay the rich people to have children." He said that, if we didn't encourage procreation of wealthier citizens, IQ levels would most definitely fall.

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