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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, @11:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @11:16PM (#786695)

    However you are missing the point.

    It could well be more comfortable for a motorcyclist to wear a full face helmet when they pop in to the bank.. But that doesn't mean the bank will allow it..
    The bans are about clothing that hides ones identity.
    Not all hijabs do.. and not all are banned.

    No, I think I get the point. Perhaps you should go back and read what Azumi Hazuki actually wrote. Azumi apparently takes issue with Muslim women wearing a hijab, regardless of whatever reasons they may have. I, on the other hand, think that people should be allowed to wear whatever they feel comfortable wearing, even if I don't agree with their reasons. We don't have a dress code in the West. I also think black people should be allowed to sit wherever they want on the bus, regardless of what I might think about it. Why the hell are you liberal types so damn controlling anyway? And I think you need to learn some Islamic terminology. A hijab covers the hair. A niqab covers the whole head, including the face. Just so you know.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:21AM (#786747)

    We'll discuss it after they stop forcing prepubescent girls to wear a piece of cloth on their head to honor a god their parents claim to believe in

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:15AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:15AM (#786814) Journal

    "Azuma," for the love of little green onions. It's like the most common surname after Tanaka and works as a given name too. It's like Johnson or Smith. Everyone in Japan knows or is an Azuma, including some pets, proportionally more so the closer to Tokyo your family is from IIRC. It's even written with the ideograph for "east."

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