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Watson knows what he is talking about. One can read James Watson's most inconvenient truth: race realism and the moralistic fallacy.

Amy Harmon of the NYT has a vendetta against 90-year-old Watson. Scientists speculate about things and then do research to confirm or refute those speculations.

Leftists are infuriated by people saying there may be innate racial differences in intelligence because they are afraid it is true. It does not matter much if such differences exists if you believe in equal treatment under the law rather than mandated equality of results by race. But IQ does matter for immigration policy. In an economy that increasingly rewards brains, you don't want to import lots of low-IQ people.

My final assignment before I retired from the Air Force was as commander of an engineering unit. I and my deputy were the only military in the outfit. All the Engineers and technicians were Civil Service. About a third of the technical people were Blacks. The engineers, black and white, had all graduated from reputable colleges. The technicians had all gone through Air Force technician school or had certificates from community colleges. They were all competent at their jobs. I am sure none of them, black or white, were in any way on the low side of the Bell Curve. I agree this was a very select group, not a random sample of whites and blacks. The main conclusion I draw from my experience is that you have to judge people as individuals. Skin color may tell you something about averages, but it tells you nothing about individuals.

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!!!!