<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_Watson#Provocative_comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;James_Watson#Provocative_comme...</a><p>&gt; On October 25, 2007, Watson was compelled to retire as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York&#x27;s Long Island and from its board of directors, after he had been quoted in The Times the previous week as saying &quot;[I am] 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.&quot; He went on to say that despite the desire that all human beings should be equal, &quot;people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.&quot;<p>There are many similar essays describing his sexist and racist views.