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from the he-earned-it,-he-can-keep-it dept.
Spotted over at The Scientist is the report that the winning bidder will return Watson's Nobel prize medal following the auction last week.
It turns out that James Watson’s Nobel Prize medal, which he won in 1962 for co-discovering the structure of DNA, will be staying with the biologist after all. The Russian entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov, who paid $4.1 million for the medal at an auction last week (December 4), will return the prize to its original owner, The New York Times reports.
The New York Times' report adds:
Mr. Usmanov said his father had died of cancer, so he valued Dr. Watson’s contributions to cancer research. “It is important for me that the money that I spent on this medal will go to supporting scientific research,” [Usmanov] said, “and the medal will stay with the person who deserved it.”
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 11 2014, @06:32AM
Ethanol, evidently this has come to pass. Obviously you cannot recognize the fallacious reasoning in such science. This is probably because of exactly the breeding propensities noted by Schockley, which no doubt he himself was also subject to. So, superior intellects, let's review: inferior intellect leads to more breeding, more breeding leads to Schockley's theories, therefore! Zieg Heil mein obergeneticism-mister!! There is a reason that racist theories were accepted as science at one point in history, and then rejected at a later one. That reason is that they were racist theories, promulgated by racists on racist assumptions to justify their pre-conceived racist ideas. At some point, the genetic degradation of the human species, in Southern California, and Orange County in particular, but also area around military bases where the same selective pressures and strip joints prevailed, results in people who believe in racist theories. So obviously, racist theory results in racists, who are obviously inferior to normally evolved homo sapiens. So where does that leave us?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 11 2014, @10:42AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 11 2014, @02:12PM
That seems to be a motto you and efueled share in common.