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James Watson: Scientist loses titles after claims over race
Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles after repeating comments about race and intelligence.
In a TV programme, the pioneer in DNA studies made a reference to a view that genes cause a difference on average between blacks and whites on IQ tests. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory said the 90-year-old scientist's remarks were "unsubstantiated and reckless". Dr Watson had made similar claims in 2007 and subsequently apologised.
He shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick for their 1953 discovery of the DNA's double helix structure.
Dr Watson sold his gold medal in 2014, saying he had been ostracised by the scientific community after his remarks about race. He is currently in a nursing home recovering from a car accident and is said to have "very minimal" awareness of his surroundings.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 14 2019, @12:45AM (3 children)
I'll always be here to fight these fucks. There are others who will too. You're not alone, as much as it seems like it and as much as this place actually *is* turning into a RWNJ cesspool.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Monday January 14 2019, @10:26AM (2 children)
I have no doubt that I'm one of the posters AC is upset about. I'd just like to point out that I welcome other viewpoints, as long as they are presented with reason. And I try to make my points with reason and without ad hominem attacks as well.
Someone putting fingers in their ears while calling people names like "racist", "alt-right", etc.? That's just a troll.
I put this post here, because Asuma Hazuki is one of the people on my "friends" list, whose comments I always enjoy, even though our views are very different.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:37AM
I'm sorry, Bradley, but the feeling is not mutual. A veneer of civility does not excuse the rot lurking underneath any more than a coat of fresh paint can change the fact that a house is crumbling at the foundations.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @08:37PM
Indeed, I have seen you support some nasty conservative values. I have not seen you go all Buzzard on someone so perhaps you do actually take in other viewpoints.
Calling someone names can be trollish but not always, if someone is saying racist shit they can be called out as racist alt-right shitheads without a trace of trolling. I'm super liberal yet I've seen instances of true "SJWs" so I now accept that term as a counter point to "alt-right". Sometimes the insults are spot on.
I started out on this site trying to maintain a high level of discourse, however it gets tiresome trying to reason with trolls and extremists. Now I respond with the lowest effort insults that shit.