SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 15 2019, @06:15AM
"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."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...