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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: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday January 14 2019, @04:22PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday January 14 2019, @04:22PM (#786471)

    I think this is a hidden truth - labels are used to avoid dealing in facts...

    there is no left or right - a belief is ephemeral until it generates a fact.

    And even then "I believe the sun will rise if I make tea at 7am", is not causal.

    So listen up folks, ignore everything in the news that does not have facts , reasoning and a means of independent verification.

    Oh and the colour scheme appears slightly pink on my monitor ;-)

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