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Posted on 11/08/2025 5:28:43 AM PST by sopo
James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at age 97.
Born in Chicago in 1928, Watson made the groundbreaking discovery at just 24 years old alongside British physicist Francis Crick. Watson died in hospice care after a brief illness, his son confirmed Friday, according to The Associated Press.
"As a scientist, his and Francis Crick’s determination of the structure of DNA, based on data from Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins and their colleagues at King’s College London, was a pivotal moment in the life sciences," Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson’s former research institution, said in a statement Friday.
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doesn’t even make the news at CNN!
I was wondering why few covered his death.
“However, later in life, he also drew widespread condemnation for racist remarks.
“His remarks on race and IQ in 2008 led the CSHL Board of Trustees to remove him from all administrative roles and his appointment as a CSHL Trustee,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory wrote. “When he made similar statements in 2020, the board revoked his Emeritus status and severed all connections with him.”
In a 2007 interview with The Sunday Times of London, James Watson said he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the assumption that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really”.
I always am amused when folks around here calls someone a “stupid racist”.
Obviously a lot of very intelligent folks throughout history were racists.
Mr. Watson was one of them.
RIP to one who made one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century.
Last time I looked at a college Biology text, he wasn’t mentioned, nor Crick
That is amazing.
The left takes no prisoners—they just annihilate your memory.
I agree!
Agreed—it is hard to underestimate the importance of the discovery of DNA—I would think number one all time in the field of biology.
Correction—overestimate...
I knew him well. He always spoke his mind.
That’s how depraved the left is.
A lot of them, and of ALL "races." Using the term is itself a support of the concept that "race" is a reality. Only the PERCEPTION of race is a reality, given that today the US changes its definitions from time to time. Most recently:
1) American Indian or Alaska Native
2) Asian
3) Black or African American
4) Hispanic or Latino
5) Middle Eastern or North African
6) Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
7) WhiteUpdates to Race/Ethnicity Standards for Our Nation United States Census Bureau.
So long ago the now-abandonned taxonomy was:
1) CaucasoidThe BELIEF that racial groups are somehow distinct by "color terminology" and that values can be assigned to these is fallacious. An associated BELIEF that a taxonomic hierarchy somehow defines "race" is also demonstrably fallacious.
2) Negroid
3) Mongoloid
4) Capoid
5) Australoid
Thus, the ludicrous assertion which I have heard on the streets of NYC so long ago -- "Blacks cannot be racist" -- is a laugh, for the sentence itself relies on "race" and then says one "race" is not "racist."
Use to term to argue for group characteristics of a certain value(s) different from another group is "racist" for it builds on those shifting sands of language. Use "race" and one is "racist."
Some of the long abandoned terms and taxonomies for "race" are a hoot, should one want to stroll into the historical weeds.
Adams to Franklin: “Do you not believe in saying what you think?” Franklin :” no , I’m very much against it. Thinking aloud is a habit responsible for much of mankind’s misery.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-PtozBKSBE
Did it do any better with taxonomy? Recent graduates seem to know less than what I learned in high school.
The man who opened Pandora’s box.
Not debating nor disputing but how do you do demographics then? Sometimes important in medical applications for instance. “Asian” is particularly useless. Include Caucasoid Indians and Mongoloid Chinese, Japanese. Always lumpers and splitters, then we end up with 57 genders
sorry. it was a very cursory look
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