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After saying that wonderful thing about Africa being stupider than everything else, James Watson, the DNA guy, has now lost his 35-year job at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and has been reduced to denying he ever said the words that made him recently famous.

Dr Watson arrived in Britain on Thursday ready to visit five different venues. That evening, he said he had been “mortified” by the response to the interview. “To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly,” he said.

“That is not what I meant. More importantly, there is no scientific basis for such a belief.” He went on: “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said. I can certainly understand why people reading those words have reacted in the ways they have.”

What a silly old fart. Of course, everybody knows Africa is actually a First World country in disguise… Right?
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