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DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments. “People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would...
Sadly, in recent years his achievements have been overshadowed by a series of controversial remarks made in public and to the press that have been viewed as racist, sexist and homophobic.
USA TODAY. Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after doubling down on racist comments. Watson, who discovered...
The decision follows the latest episode in Watson's decades-long pattern of racist remarks. Watson’s accomplishments, including his role in the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure,...
C. Brandon Ogbunu. Opinion. Jan 29, 2019 9:00 AM. James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism. Opinion: Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken...
13 January 2019. EPA. James Watson, seen here in 2009, apologised in 2007 after making similar remarks. Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary...
- The New York Times. James Watson Had a Chance to Salvage His Reputation on Race. He Made Things Worse. The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements...
