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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, @10:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @10:20PM (#786662)

    i am not afro american.
    i think they have superior mitochondria that excel at oxydizing ATP... or something along those lines.
    for a "black person" it might seem like the world of the whittys is passing by in slo-motion?
    anyways if society could get a black person to sit still long enough (snail teaching rabbit) to fill his/her
    head with useful stuff then sit this person in front of a black only class then maybe ... well ... they can learn at a uniform pace.
    just dont blame me if a "wakanda" pops up in the usa :)

    but you know if youlre "faster" then the overall population you dont have to be smart.