I felt like that was a bit of a red herring to even be included in the article. It's disingenuous to try to make the reader feel pity for him or to "soften the

I felt like that was a bit of a red herring to even be included in the article. It's disingenuous to try to make the reader feel pity for him or to "soften the blow" of the reporting on his statements. He has said some truly backwards and reprehensible things and has been for over a decade. > In 2007, the scientist, who once worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, told the Times newspaper that he was "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". While his hope was that everybody was equal, he added, "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true".