The world now knows about the blatant racism of the twentieth century’s most famous geneticist. Those tracking the story have also learned of James Watson’s other assorted bigotries – his denigration of “ugly girls,” “stupid” children, and “fat people”; his endorsement of paying rich people to have more children and aborting affected fetuses when tests for a “gay gene” are developed. At a high-profile conference to plan how to make this high-tech eugenics “acceptable” to the American public, Watson called for “making better human beings” by “adding genes.” A few years later, he advised that “Hitler’s use of the term Master Race” should not make us “feel the need to … Continue reading Marcy Darnovsky