CNN reports:

"Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people."

The source of the controversy is a Sunday Times interview in which Watson was quoted saying, "All our social policies are based on the fact that [African] intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really."

Watson has since apologized, claiming that he "cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said."