Faux Apology?

Dr James Watson, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who caused controversy recently when he suggested that blacks were genetically less intelligent than whites, has apologised for his remarks.

Why? I do not believe that Watson is sincerely in this apology. There are two ways of looking at it:

- He made the comments for absolutely no reason and with no evidence whatsoever, and now regrets them, which seems highly unlikely
- He still believes everything he said, but has decided to just throw a veil over it all by issuing an "apology" that is false, because he knows it's probably preferable to trying to press the case and being verbally abused by liberals and the media.

I suspect the latter is more true, although I will wait to see if Watson has any more to say on the matter. But I personally resent the nature of today's politically correct culture which means that no one is even considering doing some proper scientific research to see if there is any truth to the scientist's original statements. After all, as I have said before: Let's assume that Watson is right and that blacks are less intelligent on average than whites. Wouldn't it be helpful to know this, so that changes can be made in the way we deal with them and even so that we could help them?