[dragonwriter]

> James Watson was not discredited but promptly fired and "disgraced" for stating a well-supported scientific finding in abrupt layman's terms for an interview.

Even Watson admitted, before being fired, that the last straw that did that wasn't a well-supported scientific finding.

> In the case of IQ, I don't think certain people want scientific answers as to why

The people that don't want the answers as to why are the people that are busy trumpeting any reported finding of correlation that fits their political narrative, no matter how thinly supported, and insisting that it must be an inherent racial difference. The rest of the world is very much interested in both testing the correlations and seeking causal explanations.