In 1965, Shockley was invited to deliver an address at the first annual Nobel Conference, a conference on Genetics and the Future of Man that was held in the United States but was authorized by the Nobel Foundation. At that conference, Shockley revealed his racist ideology. He claimed that social policies were allowing genetic defectives to proliferate. Reverting to the old Humeian, Kantian, Mortonite, and eugenics views, he assumed that the first European inhabitants of the original thirteen states were the most competent peoples and that African Americans were the least capable but were
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