"In a primitive society, if you saw that a baby was deformed, you would abandon it on a hillside. Today this isn't permissible, and with our medicine getting better and better in the sense of being able to keep sick people alive longer, we are going to produce more people living wretched lives. [...] If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice that only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so chose and save a lot of misery and suffering."Prism, Volume 1, Number 2 (May 1973), page 13. The magazine was an AMA initiative to explore the socio-economic implications of medicine, and the interview is archived in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Archives Repository, where Watson served as director.
“ How smart was James Watson? Smart, but not to bright:”
Yeah.
He’s no Francis Cricket, who had his own stupidities also.