Posted on 01/12/2019 5:23:13 AM PST by reaganaut1
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revoked the honorary titles held by its longtime leader James D. Watson on Friday, describing as unsubstantiated and reckless his recent remarks about genetic differences in intelligence among racial groups.
Dr. Watson, one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, had apologized after making similar comments to a British newspaper in 2007. At the time, he was forced to retire from his job as chancellor at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, but he has retained his office there, as well as the titles of chancellor emeritus, Oliver R. Grace professor emeritus and honorary trustee. The graduate school of biological sciences at the research center is named for Dr. Watson, and the laboratory held a 90th birthday party for him last spring.
For the past decade the laboratory, like much of the scientific community, has engaged in a delicate balancing act with regard to Dr. Watson: holding him at arms length for reinforcing unfounded racial stereotypes, while still honoring him for his contributions to science. Dr. Watson, with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin, helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, and he went on to help to shape the subsequent revolution in molecular biology.
But his recent comments effectively reverse the written apology and retraction Dr. Watson made in 2007, and require the severing of any remaining vestiges of his involvement, Cold Spring Harbors chief executive, Bruce Stillman, and its board of trustees chairwoman, Marilyn Simons, said in a statement.
[...] In the film, Dr. Watson references a view that average I.Q. differences between blacks and whites reflect underlying genetic differences shaped by natural selection.
But leading geneticists say that even modern DNA studies are currently unable to validate such hypotheses about differences between human populations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Thanks; unfortunately many show up with incredible resentment due to crushing inferiority complexes.
Yes, there are certainly benefits to importing populations with no traditions such as the Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, etc. - they’ll accept a totalitarian state that gives them free sh!t.
The most recent Harvard Magazine has an article about legacy admissions and affirmative action.
https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/01/what-legacy
I’m not sure about copyright of the material, otherwise I would post it in its entirety. Here is a comment by the new president.
“As for the preference given to legacies, Bacow said it is not pointed out often enough that Legacies are, as a group, arguably the most qualified applicants by any measure. That should be so: highly educated parents ought to be, and disproportionately are, interested in securing the benefits of that kind of learning for their progeny.
Mine’s been over-ankified.
Dr. James Watson is a RIGHTFUL Nobel Laureate for his major role in the determination of the structure of DNA. Don’t listen to the garbage-mouths who say that he and Francis Crick “stole it” from Rosalind Franklin!!! All the discoverers of the DNA structure receive proper credit in a group of three papers back in 1953.
Dr. Watson never again achieved a discovery nearly as great as what he did at age 25. However, he mentored numerous leading (in some cases Nobel Prize winning) scientists, and SAVED the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from total destruction and closure, and led it to greatness. He spearheaded the Human Genome Project as well.
He may have views on race of questionable validity. They are at least politically incorrect, and probably should be subjects for further inquiry rather than firm conclusions. However, it is SHAMEFUL in the extreme to beat on a 90-year-old man, and strip him of what honors, positions, and salaries he retains, as rewards for a lifetime of contributions.
Amy Harmon is just another vile, disgusting gutter journo, who like others of her ilk is an enemy of America and of humanity!!!! And she works for the once well-regarded New York Times, which is now a nest of such lowlife journos, and is not even worth using for toilet paper!!!!
Anyone who follows Ms. Harmon on Twitter and parrots her atrocious attacks on Dr. Watson is just another specimen of radical-Dim garbage! They should watch out for what might happen to them if and when they reach an advanced age! It may not be pretty!!!!
Hes a racist...lol
Indeed
And Western Civilization is nothing to be proud of and was all stolen from non whites by racist whites
I have it in good authority
Can I bask the shadow of your moral superiority
Move a little further to the left..
There thats it
Thanks
“And Western Civilization is nothing to be proud of and was all stolen from non whites by racist whites”
Putting words in my mouth =/= a witty retort.
“Can I bask the shadow of your moral superiority”
Yes, yes you may.
“Move a little further to the left..”
Cute. I have no tolerance for this nor “climate science”.
Like I said, either attract political extremists that are just looking to “get at” some part of society they are too dickless to flat-out say they want to go after.
As long as neither have to balls to be forthright and hide behind couched language and weasel words, then I’ll keep laughing at them.
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I.Q. test anyone?
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