Gold standard scientist, perhaps top 10 scientist of all time, discoverer of DNA itself is being depersoned because of his views on race. Maybe this is what we should do from now on.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... e-comments
DNA scientist James Watson stripped of honors over views on race
New York laboratory cuts ties with 90-year-old scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA, revoking all titles and honors
In 2007, the lab removed him as chancellor after he told the Sunday Times he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of 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”.
He also said that while he wished the races were equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”
Watson apologized at the time but in a recent documentary he said his views have not changed.
“Not at all,” he said in the PBS documentary American Masters: Decoding Watson, the New York Times reported.
“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. And there’s a difference on the average between blacks and whites on IQ tests. I would say the difference is, it’s genetic.”
The latest comments “effectively reverse the written apology and retraction Dr Watson made in 2007”, the lab said, adding it appreciated his legacy of scientific discoveries and leadership of the institution but could no longer be associated with him.
“The statements he made in the documentary are completely and utterly incompatible with our mission, values, and policies, and require the severing of any remaining vestiges of his involvement,” Simons and Stillman said.