DNA pioneer James Watson stripped of honors over racist views

barrygoldwaterlover Why was James Watson spreading the claim that the black white iq gap is mostly genetic? "No,'' Dr. Watson said. "Not at all. I would like for them to have changed, that there be new knowledge that says that your nurture is much more important than nature. But I haven't seen any knowledge. James Watson: Scientist loses titles after claims over racist remarks bbc.com Open Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Sort by: lost__in__space OP • 5 yr. ago

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The New York Times recently did a piece on James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. According to the article, Watson said in 2007 that there were differences between the races in intelligence and that there is evidence that this difference is significantly genetic. The fact that James Watson gets to live a long life despite being a terrible person when Rosalind Franklin died young of ovarian cancer If you don't know who these people are, I'll explain. James Watson, along with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin, were/are the molecular biologists that discovered the double helix shape of DNA. TIL Dr. James Watson, discoverer of DNA, said that genetically, black people are dumber. en.wikipedia.org 691 Sort by: Open comment sort options x86_64Ubuntu • 12 yr. ago Another one of these posts ? You know what that means folks, our biweekly Morgan Freeman video is around the corner. 1 more reply jaschaumamal • 12 yr. ago James Watson: Scientist loses titles after claims over race - BBC News bbc This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast 484 504 comments Best [deleted] • 5 yr. ago [deleted] • 5 yr. ago There are over 1000 genes responsible for intelligence. Some aspects of intelligence are genetic.

DNA pioneer James Watson stripped of honors over racist views

In an interview aired on US television earlier this month, James Watson — who won the Nobel in 1962 for his role in discovering DNA's double helix structure — said genes were responsible for a difference between black and white people on IQ tests. The legacy of James Watson — who discovered DNA along with Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin — has once again been tarnished by the American biologist's offensive, baseless. 145 comments Best cowboy_dude_6 • 1 yr. ago Watson began to recede from public life in 2007, after he told a British reporter that he was "gloomy" about Africa because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really". Dr. Lander quickly apologized. "I reject his views as despicable," Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. "They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone. I was wrong to toast, and I'm.

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James Watson is undoubtedly one of the world's greatest living scientists. Awarded a Nobel Prize for his work unravelling the double-helix structure of DNA while still a young man, the. Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist James Watson has been stripped of honorary titles awarded to him by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a Long Island-based non-profit research. 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. James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American . In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure.

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James Watson, of no fixed abode, was convicted by a jury's majority verdict at the Old Bailey in London of the 1994 murder after a DNA breakthrough in 2016 revealed that, as a 13-year-old, he. A New York laboratory has cut its ties with James Watson, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA, over "reprehensible" comments in which he said race and.