Again, he steps into the fray linking race and intelligence. James ‘Watson-&-Crick’ Watson’s recent comments seem par the course. He has a long history of espousing a problematic brand of biological determinism. His clarification only served to complicate the matter. He tells us “We do not yet adequately understand the way in which the different environments in the world have selected over time the genes which determine our capacity to do different things.” Which is certainly true at a certain level. We also don’t adequately understand forces which maintained relative similarity across the human genome. But even more problematic for Watson is his conclusion: “The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity. It may well be. But simply wanting this to be the case is not enough. This is not science. To question this is not to give in to racism. This is not a discussion about superiority or inferiority, it is about seeking to understand differences, about why some of us are great musicians and others great engineers.” Watson’s ’science’ fails to fully reflect scientific understandings of the problem, much less socio-cultural engagements with the character of science. He doesn’t want to give in to racism? But he wants to reify race as a biological category without offering anything beyond his own racist assertions. If one beleives Watson then human variations are strictly biologically and environmentally determined, humans existed in isolation before European conquest, clines mean nothing, gene flow never happens, Mendel never wrote of particulate inheritance. Like other racists, Watson’s ’science’ is selective and incomplete, an excuse to justify oppression and socio-economic differences, and sidestep our moral failings.Unfortunately, no appology will suffice. His comments will forever be used to support a position which belittles the character of humanity.