When scientist fall prey to their instinctive social upbringing

Nobel laureate James Watson expressed his honest belief earlier this week when he declared that Europeans were essentially smarter that Africans and that social policies to help Africa were based on the flawed assumption that they (Africans) were as intelligent as Europeans. He however did not reveal where or how the Europeans stacked against the Indians, Asians, Arabs or Hispanics and that in itself is a display of some amount of intelligence on his part. Watson was smart enough to single out the ethnic group less likely to react in kind to his comments. I am somehow curious as to his opinion on Nazi Germany's position that they were superior to the British and were bent on exercising that belief until deterred. In his defence Watson declared that he was misunderstood, particularly by the less intelligent journalists and commentators and maybe by a few of his own who would very likely have defective genes.

If James Watson were to state his understanding of intelligence as it relates to his statement earlier this week, I would be most curious as to his excuse for those Europeans who after invading Africa and plundering it for the last 400 plus years had not been intelligent enough to realize that their recent methods for resuscitating the African economies were not working. Is it that they were successfully making a fool of their population or James Watson on the eve of his 80th birthday needs help?