Watson dumped
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Isn't it funny how obviously very intelligent people latch onto wacky ideas, especially later in life? He should've known how flawed an IQ test is, and how it is not a test of overall intelligence, but just instead tests how well you do tests. The Flynn effect is a good example of how flawed it is...
Honorary Titles Revoked From DNA Pioneer James Watson Over Racist Views
"Watson, who has been affiliated with the lab since 1968, stood by his controversial 2007 views of Blacks being a genetically inferior race. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 helping discover the structure of DNA. His views still supported the archaic and invalid line of thought that race and intelligence were connected."
I'm surprised this bastard didn't try to find an alternative helix combination to justify the lack of the ability to be intelligent in black people. Probably not because he didn't try - I suppose. Heh.
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Date: 21/1/19 15:54 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21/1/19 20:34 (UTC)Obviously, compared to Crick and Watson, Franklin was simply the lady photographer to the folk of that period who nominated men for the Nobel prize almost uniformly. But I still think it's wrong to say they plagiarised her work. You know, as well as the rest of us do, how academic papers often get published with the supervisor's name heading the list of authors; but normally folk acknowledge the other folk who actually did the work too. It is iniquitous, but so is almost all academic publication and supervision, never mind the pay-to-access academic papers because certain publishing houses saw a way of making a bigger margin on academic stuff. It's all behind a paywall near you, after all; if you can get your department to fund access that is.
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Date: 21/1/19 21:01 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21/1/19 22:18 (UTC)