Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
James Watson, one of the great scientific minds of the past century, has died at the age of 97. In 1953, still in his mid-twenties, he and colleague Francis Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule. It was an essential precondition for just about all the advances made in genetics since that time. (more…)
Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Many of the people who joined in the attacks on Watson in 2007 must have known that what he said about racial differences was accurate. After all, if he had simply been unaware of all the studies demonstrating that racial IQ gaps are environmental in origin, these could easily and quietly have been brought to his attention. There would have been no need to impugn the man’s character publicly.
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Edward Dutton
Genius Under House Arrest: The Cancelation of James Watson
Washington: Academica Press, 2025
Ed Dutton’s latest offering is a continuation of two of his favorite themes: the nature of genius, and the personality profile of those who suffer from the woke mind virus. In October, 2007, the two clashed dramatically when James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helical structure of the DNA molecule, sparked a moral panic and was subjected to widespread character assassination for making some empirically accurate remarks on racial differences. (more…)
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In 1941, Jewish-American businessman Theodore Kaufman wrote Germany Must Perish! This 96-page booklet advocated for “the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth of all her people” via forced sterilization. Fun fact: Between the pages of Germany Must Perish! and Mein Kampf, one can find an open call to annihilate an entire race of people only in the former. (more…)
Dr. James D. Watson
Dr. James D. Watson
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It’s the age-old story of crabs in a bucket: When one enlightened individual looks up, he sees the expanse of the universe and all its possibilities, but when all the other crabs look up, the ones who aren’t so enlightened only see one individual trying to escape. And they pull him back in.
James Dewey Watson is one such enlightened individual. We all know his accomplishments as perhaps the world’s most famous living scientist. (more…)