James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/11261872/James-Watson-selling-Nobel-prize-because-no-one-wants-to-admit-I-exist.html

Expects to fetch $2.5m. He wants to buy a David Hockney painting and support to scientific research with the money.

Control wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/11261872/James-Watson-selling-Nobel-prize-because-no-one-wants-to-admit-I-exist.html

Expects to fetch $2.5m. He wants to buy a David Hockney painting and support to scientific research with the money.

If I say I don't believe in evolution I'm told I don't believe in science.

When the Nobel-prize winning scientist who discovered the double-helixed dna strand says not all races evolved at the same speed or with the same abilities, he's treated like a red-headed step-child.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Control wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/11261872/James-Watson-selling-Nobel-prize-because-no-one-wants-to-admit-I-exist.html

Expects to fetch $2.5m. He wants to buy a David Hockney painting and support to scientific research with the money.

If I say I don't believe in evolution I'm told I don't believe in science.

When the Nobel-prize winning scientist who discovered the double-helixed dna strand says not all races evolved at the same speed or with the same abilities, he's treated like a red-headed step-child.

Well even Watson has since admitted that his statements were wrong and proven wrong due to shedload of research that proved that original statement of his wrong. In his defence one can say that at the time he said so a lot of reseach was based on less than objective ideas.

Anyone see Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson? Maybe the best science drama ever made.

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saint mark wrote:

Well even Watson has since admitted that his statements were wrong and proven wrong due to shedload of research that proved that original statement of his wrong. In his defence one can say that at the time he said so a lot of reseach was based on less than objective ideas.

Which statements? The theory of evolution in general, or the idea that sub-Saharans evolved at a different speed, and are thus fundamentally different from other "races"?

I don't believe in evolution. Period. I don't have one ounce of doubt that it is pure junk science. Ergo, I don't believe black people evolved at a different speed, or pace, over thousands of years.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

saint mark wrote:

Well even Watson has since admitted that his statements were wrong and proven wrong due to shedload of research that proved that original statement of his wrong. In his defence one can say that at the time he said so a lot of reseach was based on less than objective ideas.

Which statements? The theory of evolution in general, or the idea that sub-Saharans evolved at a different speed, and are thus fundamentally different from other "races"?

I don't believe in evolution. Period. I don't have one ounce of doubt that it is pure junk science. Ergo, I don't believe black people evolved at a different speed, or pace, over thousands of years.

I do believe that a lot of people are more stupid than me and there are equally more people smarter than me, but I do not base that on gender or race.

saint mark wrote:

I do believe that a lot of people are more stupid than me and there are equally more people smarter than me, but I do not base that on gender or race.

In general, do women learn in different ways than men? Do they process information differently?

Alisher Usamanov, richest man in Russia, and purchaser of Watson's Nobel for $4.1 million, plans on returning the scientist's prize.

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"In my opinion, a situation in which an outstanding scientist has to sell a medal recognizing his achievements is unacceptable,” Usmanov said in a statement. “James Watson is one of the greatest biologists in the history of mankind and his award for the discovery of DNA structure must belong to him."