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Nobel Prize-Winning American Scientist James Watson Stripped of Honorary Titles

posted by chromas on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the race-to-disgrace dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Previously: Disgraced Scientist is Selling his Nobel Prize

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @01:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @01:07AM (#786167)

    like that Jews' IQ average about 104, and the Japanese also have slightly higher IQs than Caucasians. There was of course the 19th century and earlier notion that women are mentally inferior to men. Sophisticates realized that was not so, but the idea was strongly entrenched. Even today, there's a big mystery over why women are underrepresented in STEM.

    Jews are (on average) between 3 or 4 standard deviations less intelligent than me (re: IQ tests) but see how that slightly above average median score translates into Nobel prize winners. The difference between men and women is as statistically insignificant as the difference between Jews and Caucasians but again the distribution tells all. There's another, entirely different [zmescience.com] phenomena that partly accounts for the marked difference in intellectual performance between the genders. Then there's the other biological factors such as neurology factors to consider. [frontiersin.org]

    Over the last decade, I've come to the conclusion that the left are insane. Just as I hated religious conservatives for not supporting the distribution of condoms to combat AIDS in Africa, I now hate the left for engaging in ideological battles that are socially harmful. Perhaps if we force gender equality in the social sciences, that will be the end of it -- why aren't the left calling for that?