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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, @05:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @05:34AM (#786290)

    The FBI has evidence for the numbers that you are complaining about, what evidence do you have for the numbers you are refuting it with? The cops that I have interacted with that grew up on the west coast or in a small town are entirely different officers than the ones that grew up in big crime ridden cities.

    We cannot dismiss that excessive racism could be a cause, we also cannot dismiss that we are different people. The same medicine will work different based on the color of your skin because of the differences in the genes that cause it. We need to understand our differences to find the best ways to make everything level out.

    http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/police-department-officer-demographics-minority-representation.html [governing.com]
    You can select a police department here and see what their ethnic breakdown is. If you were correct than the number of black folks arrested would go down with the number of black officers, but this does not appear to be the case when you look at major cities.