The building of the UKCMRI is the target of a campaign because it will be carry out tests on live animals.

Francis Crick appears to be a good choice given his belief in 'positive eugenics' – i.e. that poor people should not be allowed to breed as fast as rich people. He was actually named after Sir Francis Galton (Darwin’s cousin) who coined the term 'eugenics'.)

Crick also had some curious views about the intelligence of black people. In a letter he wrote:

'As to your point about the I.Q. results on American Indians being mainly due to their cultural tradition, this may be so, but personally I doubt it. How do you explain the relatively poor I.Q. performance of the children of middle-class American negroes?'

As well as:

'The main difficulty is that people have to start thinking out eugenics in a different way. The Nazis gave it a bad name and I think it is time something was done to make it respectable again.'

A wise choice for such a laboratory!

 http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/francis-crick-james-watsons-partner-was.html

 http://camdendangerlab.blogspot.com/