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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.
Previously: Disgraced Scientist is Selling his Nobel Prize
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:41PM
Hey now, you need to cut that out.
You're threatening the validity of the SJWs' double standards.
See, the SJWs want to force you to believe everyone is equal. Of course anyone above the intelligence level of a cretin understands this is not true and never has been true and never will be true.
But remember, reality doesn't concern the SJWs, because they operate on emotion and a herd mentality and don't actually engage in independent critical thought.
Put simply, the SJWs are a mob. And we all know how mobs tend to exemplify wisdom and logic ...