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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @09:57PM
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888?pfmredir=sm [abc.net.au]
Some bright spark came up with the idea that the reason less females and less minorities were getting into positions was due to bias.
So, they came up with a plan. Strip race and gender from applications.
The result was that less minorities and less females got in.
The article talks about gender. The experiment was also a multiculturalism test to prove that the white workforce were discriminating against non-whites. They were wrong.
They put this policy into place to make recruitment more fair. It worked.
When they found that it didn't work like they wanted it to they removed it.
That's the take away here. Political correctness is more important.