you can discover DNA and still be stupid.
Race Remarks Get Noble Winner in Trouble
Circumstantial evidence, at best, supports his flimsy claims. Does anyone besides me find it unsettling that Social Darwinism persists to this day? I find his opinion unintentionally amusing in a way. He's the personification of pseudo-intellectual Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband in F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. I needn't remind you all this is the guy who is responsible for cracking the genetic code, which has saved lives, solved crimes, and improved the lives of many humans.
I don't know what quote of his I find more offensive or ridiculous. This wasn't the first time he's made such statements. If we follow his advice, apparently mothers should have the right to abort their babies if it is determined, in utero, that they are homosexual. I think my favorite quote is his assertion that skin pigment is directly proportional to sex drive and prowess in bed. Under that logic, all Latinos are better lovers than say, Norwegians.
Wingnut alert!
Watson's been a bit of a joke in the scientific community for ages. He's a biochemist, so he's as qualified to talk about this subject as he is to talk about astronomy. It's also worth remembering that he and Crick stole much of their work for the Nobel Prize from Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling.
ReplyDeleteHe's a well known racist and sexist passing off his own bigoted opinions of white supremacy as scientific fact without presenting a lick of real evidence to back it up.
Eugenics is junk science that led to sterilizations of American citizens who were "unsatisfactory persons" in the past. Hitler borrowed heavily from this exciting new field, along with our concept of ghettoization. As Stephen Hawking once said, “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” In short, Watson is a douche.