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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: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Monday January 14 2019, @05:20AM (1 child)
Without immigration the birth rate in this country would be flat, yet the economy is growing. This would force employers to compete harder for the average employee, which would be increases in benefits and pay. Instead the Democrats flood us with low-skilled labor so the people who are already hurting just keep hurting, and the Republicans flood us with H1B that out-compete debt ridden students who were tricked into getting student loans.
The left pretends immigration doesn't hurt us, the right pretends that corporations can't find workers.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @11:48PM
It takes two people to be tricked.