Paul spent 38 yrs as a partner of a boutique commercial litigation firm in the Sydney, Australia, CBD. He frequently appeared before the NSW Supreme Court & the Federal Court of Australia, inc having a major flaw in the Corporations Act amended by the Australian parliament. Retired, his forensic skills are now turned to the major issues in our society. Exposing the errors, or worse still, lies in behind beliefs commonly held, even taught to our children, that are seriously and dangerously wrong. The Truth is always quiet. It is lies that are loud. CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy).
CYKIAE Season 15 Part 61. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – James Watson – Africans Have Lower IQs
… there's a difference on the average between blacks and whites on I.Q. tests. I would say the difference is, it's genetic."
James Watson in an interview in the PBS American Masters Series in 2018.
Tag words: James Watson; PBS American Masters Series; Walter Isaacson; Jennifer Doudna; The Code Breaker; DNA; human nature; intelligence; Avoid Boring People; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; somehow genetically inferior; Eric Lander; Rufus Watson; Human Genome Project;
26 Oct 2026
CYKIAE Season 15 Part 60. And Christ Rose Yet Again – Sudden Death of Atheism – Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Benefits of Eugenics–James Watson–Africans Are Not As Intelligent as Caucasians
[James Watson, the legendary discoverer of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953] says that he is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really, and I know that this hot potato is going to be difficult to address." His hope is that everyone is equal, but he counters that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
Quote from an interview by Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe of the Sunday Times of London in 2007.
Tag words: James Watson; Francis Crick; DNA; Jennifer Doudna; Walter Isaacson; The Code Breaker; The Double Helix; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory research centre; Human Genome Project; The Biology of Genomes; Rufus Watson; RNA molecules; abortion;
19 Oct 2026
CYKIAE Season 15 Part 59. CYKIAE And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – James Watson and the Double Helix.
Eugenics – all those years ago. A mistaken road that science had turned down. But is that true? Walter Isaacson in his book, The Code Breaker, about Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, wrote the surprising story of one of the greatest scientists of all times, who only died on 6 November 2025 – James Watson – one of the discoverers of the DNA double helix who had played a vital role in the human genome project. Isaacson wrote:
One of the many roots of the Human Genome Project involved Doudna's childhood hero James Watson and his son Rufus. The provocative author of The Double Helix was the director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a haven for biomedical research and seminars on a 110-acre wooded campus on the north shore of Long Island. Founded in 1890, it has a history of important research. It was there in the 1940s that Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück led a study group on phages that included the young Watson. But it is also haunted by more controversial ghosts. From 1904 until 1939, under director Charles Davenport, it served as a center for eugenics, producing studies asserting that different races and ethnic groups had genetic differences in such traits as intelligence and criminality. By the end of Watson's tenure as director there from 1968 to 2007, his own pronouncements on race and genetics would revive these ghosts.
So let’s pick up from where I left off in the last part of the story of eugenics. By the way, Isaacson tells us that eugenics means “good genes”. Sounds harmless enough. So what’s the fuss?
Tag words: Eugenics; Walter Isaacson; The Code Breaker; Jennifer Doudna; James Watson; DNA double helix; Human Genome Project; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; that Salvador Luria; Max Delbrück; Charles Davenport; Richard Weikart; From Darwin to Hitler; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; psychiatry; born criminal; The Descent of Man; Darwinism; Thomas Malthus; On Populations; Daniel Boorstin; The Discovers; Karl Marx; John Maynard Keynes; Origin of Species; Eugenicists; Judeo-Christian; God;
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