The American geneticist, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine as one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, said that he was "deeply pessimistic about the future of Africa", stating that black people were less intelligent that white, in a recent interview in the Sunday Times.
The CRIF President said that this approach was "unacceptable", and "all the more unacceptable coming from an eminent scientist". "I react as CRIF President, as a medical doctor and as a human being against this kind of idiotic classification", declared Richard Prasquier.
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