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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.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @11:43PM (2 children)
Ah, so you're attempting to be an intellectual but you're missing the required education and/or wisdom. Got it! HiThere already gave you a good piece to chew on, and that doesn't even get into the issues with IQ tests.
Your personal problem is your ego, you have way too much self-confidence for your actual abilities and knowledge. Maybe save your ego for tech related stuff where you actually have useful experience.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 14 2019, @12:41AM (1 child)
Did you have a rebuttal for anything I said or are you going strictly with ad-hom because you know you're wrong?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @03:27AM
Nope, that was the level of response warranted since you ignored the post you replied to and simply restated your opinion. You are making statements based on an incomplete model, like the guy who threw a snowball to prove global warming isn't real.
Reiteration and trolling for a reactionary insult does not validate your arguments. I only just recently found out that getting someone to mock you is regarded as a "win" in some circles. Thus why you admire Trump, he makes people angry therefore he "wins" and isn't that just amazeballs!? Poor comedy writers, reality is ruining their jokes.