| James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' | |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:01 pm | |
| 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. |
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Gravity's Silhouette Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3994 Member Since : 2011-04-15 Location : Inside my safe space
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Sat Nov 29, 2014 2:05 am | |
| - 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. |
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saint mark Head of Station
Posts : 1160 Member Since : 2011-09-08 Location : Up in the Dutch mountains
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:36 pm | |
| - 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. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:41 pm | |
| Anyone see Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson? Maybe the best science drama ever made. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:29 pm | |
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Gravity's Silhouette Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3994 Member Since : 2011-04-15 Location : Inside my safe space
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:23 am | |
| - 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. |
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saint mark Head of Station
Posts : 1160 Member Since : 2011-09-08 Location : Up in the Dutch mountains
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:05 pm | |
| - 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. |
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Gravity's Silhouette Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3994 Member Since : 2011-04-15 Location : Inside my safe space
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:33 am | |
| - 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? |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:00 pm | |
| Alisher Usamanov, richest man in Russia, and purchaser of Watson's Nobel for $4.1 million, plans on returning the scientist's prize. - Quote :
- "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."
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