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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @06:14AM
The right doesn't scare me because they are already the most armed group of extremists that has ever existed and with the exception of a handful of events by legit crazies there haven't been any big problems. They also seem to evaporate into the woodwork rather than escalate things when bad stuff happens. The left though I am afraid of, but that might just be because I have seen what the left is willing to do. Spiking trees, setting SUVs on fire, blocking highways, building bombs (weather underground). I like predictability, and the right is fairly predictable right now. They have their jobs and they have to be at work on Monday, so they can't start too much shit. But the left? I don't know.