The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds. It has been more than a decade since James D. Watson, a founder of modern genetics, landed in a kind of professional exile by suggesting that black people are intrinsically less intelligent than whites.
In 2007, Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, told a British journalist that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says, not really.” Moreover, he added, although he wished everyone were equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”
Dr. Watson’s comments reverberated around the world, and he was forced to retire from his job as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, although he retains an office there. He apologized publicly and “unreservedly,’’ and in later interviews he sometimes suggested that he had been playing the provocateur — his trademark role — or had not understood that his comments would be made public.
Ever since, Dr. Watson, 90, has been largely absent from the public eye. His speaking invitations evaporated. In 2014, he became the first living Nobelist to sell his medal, citing a depleted income from having been designated a “nonperson.’’ But his remarks have lingered. They have been invoked to support white supremacist views, and scientists routinely excoriate Dr. Watsonwhen his name surfaces on social media.
Eric Lander, the director of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, elicited an outcry last spring with a toast he made to Dr. Watson’s involvement in the early days of the Human Genome Project. Dr. Lander quickly apologized. “I reject his views as despicable,” Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. “They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone. I was wrong to toast, and I’m sorry.’’
And yet, offered the chance recently to recast a tarnished legacy, Dr. Watson has chosen to reaffirm it, this time on camera. In a new documentary, “American Masters: Decoding Watson,’’ to be broadcast on P.B.S. on Wednesday night, he is asked whether his views about the relationship between race and intelligence have changed. “No,’’ Dr. Watson said. “Not at all. I would like for them to have changed, that there be new knowledge that says that your nurture is much more important than nature. But I haven’t seen any knowledge. And there’s a difference on the average between blacks and whites on I.Q. tests. I would say the difference is, it’s genetic.’’
Dr. Watson adds that he takes no pleasure in “the difference between blacks and whites’’ and wishes it didn’t exist. “It’s awful, just like it’s awful for schizophrenics,’’ he says. (His son Rufus was diagnosed in his teens with schizophrenia.) Dr. Watson continues: “If the difference exists, we have to ask ourselves, how can we try and make it better?”
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How should such fundamentally unsound views be weighed against his extraordinary scientific contributions?
fundamentally unsound views
Yeah I'm sure a "journalist" knows more about biology/genetics than a geneticist. Makes perfect sense. Oh wait, no. The older I get, the more disgusted I am with these "people" who lie to themselves and everyone else. They didn't even once point out in the article why his views are unsound. They just imply that it is and then implies that apparently nurture is more important than nature - which Watson rightfully points out has no evidence.
The very first step in the jewish debate playbook: assume your audience is stupid or ignorant, then make a baseless claim and assert its validity.
“I reject his views as despicable,” Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. “They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone…"
That's probably a better example of double-think than even Orwell could have written.
Fucking Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Franklin took a picture. That's it. Watson and Crick spent years of experimentation, theorizing, and Franklin had nothing to do with it. She took a picture, and was credited for it in their work. What's fucking hilarious about when they put forth these amazing stronk female pop science heroes is that when they are demolished by an honest assessment of their contributions (or lack thereof) it makes women as a whole seem really pathetic. The fact that they have to lie about female contribution to science makes them seem way stupider than if they had just stayed mum and said nothing about it at all.
This disgusting chink
https://i.imgtc.com/CeDBXHD.png
Lol this guy is doing groundbreaking research on Melanin, trying to prove the existence of Yakub, and reengineer Da Pyramids for spaceflight
Emotional intelligence lol
https://i.imgtc.com/RWJasQm.png
WE WUZ
I'm getting tired of these arguments that nigger countries are shit, because something bad happened to them in the past. It's not like there haven't been wars, civil wars, drought, flood and plague in any other countries. Yet some countries manage to get their shit together. But since Alexander did something thousands of years ago, niggers gotta nig.
superspathi ago
It's interesting to me that the New York Times article present Watson as some kind of King Lear figure, brought low by his own character flaws, while I think it's possible people of the future will see him as more like a Galileo, banished for speaking intolerable truths.
Butterbread ago
Ok, so jews are smart is OK, but blacks can't be stupid. And blacks are stupid because they were put through hell, but jews were put through the greatest hell and got smarter. Got it.
Gee it's tough to be a Leftist
Truthsayer9000 ago
The comment by that chink is especially disgusting. Chinks will always stab whites in the back if the opportunity arises.
Vhaine ago
Be journalist in current year. Acknowledge the individual in question is an authoritative source on genetics by listing his pedigree. Put forth the idea that one of the fathers of modern genetic research doesn't know wtf he's talking about because...reason? Provide no statistical data to disprove his position. Cite no sources. Provide no evidence.
This is the journalistic equivalent of virtue signaling.
Rellik88 ago
Welcome everyone even against science?
CulturalImperialist ago
Well someone has to explain how black magic calls down lightning to smite your enemies, cause White so-called scientists can't.
Baconmon ago
I'm sorry, I didn't realize science was about "welcoming everyone".....For some WEIRD reason I thought science was about FIGURING OUT THE TRUTH.. And if the truth is that bell curves are REAL, then it is NATURE that is racist; White people are just being a messanger and refusing to play a big larping game of pretend.. "Let's pretend all races are totally the same even though we acknowledge that every type of animal species is very different!"
curiouserdude ago
The fundamental idea of political correctness is that the world will become the way we want to be if we pretend that it is that way. The only thing that can stop the world becoming the way we would like it to be is someone pointing out empirical evidence to the contrary.
Pluviou5 ago
Because political correctness is denialism. The lies it promotes are against truths that can be learned and experienced in objective reality.
webster_warrior ago
I recently noticed something strange about online IQ tests, which I have taken now and then for years just for fun. know I am not the brightest, and certainly haven't gotten any smarter; but, according to the tests I have recently taken, I am getting dumber by leaps and bounds. How is that possible? By the way, the tests that come up on search look nothing like the ones that used to come up. BTW, I am a conservative & they know it.
Soyboy69 ago
You're also white and they know it.
Crackrocknigga ago
Poor aspie just wanted to advance the science of genetics, but didn't realize we are living in a talmudic world.
Talc ago
the opposite to real is fake, or fantasy. The antonym to Realist is probably fantasist
race fantasists, has a nice ring to it.
Walk1 ago
Its an argument that does not hold that Nigger countries are shit because of colonial oppression. Its not possible in any sense of the word, as there must be some other component involved, but since we can only draw from inference that this is the case and since it is otherwise unverifiable, we are left in the dark at the end of the day with only our racial instincts and intuitive guessing to guide us and that is only good enough to get us so far.
Nigger countries are basically broken and cannot get behind that point because they are run by people with lower intelligences and even though they can know things they cannot put it too good use and apply things correctly to the realities that exist around them.
I think the other non-white countries cannot get themselves going because they are in fact in a similar state and they are degenerative.
ninjajunkie ago
Not just a genticist, the fucking founder of modern genetics himself! They sure don't mind using his science they agree with to push their agenda, but sure the rest is "unfounded". These people need a slap in the face, with a chair.
HighEnergyLife ago
Most of black children still can't pass the Mirror Test by 5yrs old. How is that cultural or have anything to do with the destruction of Wakanda by evil 25th century hipsters from Connecticut?
stbelmont ago
PhilKDick ago
Good point. Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kids-and-animals-who-fail-classic-mirror/
HighEnergyLife ago
Hahahahaha
They rationalize failed test results by comparing black kids to animals, namely gorillas. Jesus Christ.
Peacethroughpower ago
Toppest of all keks
UKD ago
I have so much respect for someone who will tell the truth come what may.
0fsgivin ago
Can we make a gofundme for this poor guy? He did amazing work FOR ALL RACES. And im sure wants what is best FOR ALL RACES. And the poor bastard is broke?
Fuck this...I'm gunna look into this shit. It's not fucking right.
cantaloupe6 ago
GOGETFUNDING (a more conservative friendly giving site with fewer fees)
GIVESENDGO (a Christian based funding program with almost no fees)
dundundunnnnn ago
If you get his address, PLEASE let us know. I'd send him monies.
cthulian_axioms ago
Call the Cold Spring National Lab (or whatever the article said his former place of employment was) and see if they have a forwarding address on file for him.
HighEnergyLife ago
Nobody will process the payments. You'll have to mail him a check yourself
SaneGoatOySwear ago
Alright. Here's an idea how we get around GoFundMe. Create a GoFundMe for like, uh, ladders to illegally cross border walls. Collect the money. Then send the check to James Watson.
Butterbread ago
Go to jail for fraud
canuhunter ago
lol
bagano1 ago
Thought I saw Jameis Winston for a minute.
Scroobius ago
“I reject his views as despicable,” Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. “They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone…"
Science show blacks are statistically dumber than other races. "Science has no place in science." WTF
flapjack_charlie ago
What a profoundly stupid comment. First science MUSTN'T welcome ANYONE because all that matters in science is empirically reproducible results. Second, his comments haven't been in the least bit exclusionary to anyone. He never said or implied black people shouldnt or couldn't be scientists, just that on average they have a lower IQ than whites. This does not mean that there are no brilliant black scientists, it has to do with effectively dispensing foreign aid rather than ineffectively squandering it to protect your political biases.
This is just an unbelievable failure of logic.
14WordsToFreedom ago
So cringey. Is science the pursuit of truth? Or is it the pursuit of welcoming everyone? Because we could do the latter with a lot fewer grants.
notYOURfriend ago
Welcome everyone except James.
Gumbatron ago
They will welcome everyone that agrees with their progressive agenda. Everyone else are Nazis.
This kind of mentality is not scientific, it's religious but without any God or guiding moral base. That makes it particularly dangerous.
GapingAnus ago
This is good. Let them. They will then learn about the benefits of a meritocratic system and get out-competed by cultures which care more about the results than the intent.
KoKansei ago
It does have a guiding "morality:" slave morality - i.e., the idea that that which is noble is evil and that which is base is good. It is the one thread that runs through all of their thought and it is why they hate white people especially (and Asians to a lesser extent).
yewotm8 ago
One of the greatest thinkers of our age has been outcast due to his heretical beliefs. Leftists will insist it was christianity all along that was shutting down scientists though.
Peacethroughpower ago
And i fucking believed them. It makes me sick to even think about.
soygoy ago
From the comments on the article:
Gorillion ago
Any white woman who took that deal would deserve everything coming to them. A 20k penalty in that context should be a mark of pride.
Also: Saved a pic of the comment. Not much info in the user's name ("as" - NYC). But I'd hate for them to miss out on the DOTR.
Perhaps some nice intel spook will leak the illegal commenter tracking on TNYT articles once the pendulum swing has made it safe enough to do so.
webster_warrior ago
Tell that to 19th century Portugal.
Rawrination ago
That is Genocide. We are being genocided already, that would just be a faster form of it. Maybe it would wake people the fuck up and get us off our asses.
mrfetus ago
That's fucking sick.
KoKansei ago
State-sponsored dysgenics.
Guardbuddy ago
Brazil tried that and it became, well, Brazil.
Millions of Pardo favela rats and slums that their police literally have to lay siege to.
flapjack_charlie ago
That's what they dont get. They're literally fighting for the opposite of what they think they are.
redpilldessert ago
Source?
Scroobius ago
To the gallows
Pubiclouse ago
Thanks for the update and saving it to read more later. I have been following what's been going on with poor Professor James Watson for a while now. The Scientific Community is a joke
edistojim ago
Peer review is a joke. If everyone agrees it must be correct. Madness.
KoKansei ago
Peer review works in a very small, tight knit academic setting consisting mostly of European gentry, but its usefulness as a social technology ends there.
anoncastillo ago
The results of life speak for themselves. When east Asians who were put through similar oppression (considered colored under Jim Crow, prevented from owning businesses outside the Jim Crow south, thrown in internment camps during WWII, etc.) and today make more money than whites while all the help in the world leaves blacks still poor, it's obvious genes affect us more than public policy.
OhGoodLord2 ago
Chinks are still basically a combination of Jews and niggers. Intrigued by shiny things, prize asshole behavior. Did you see their float catch on fire and scuttle the Rose Parade yesterday? That's what we have to look forward to as a society.
anoncastillo ago
Every race has its strengths and weaknesses. East Asians are not as creative as whites but they tend to improve on the things we invent with their cold logic.
Butterbread ago
They tend to steal tech and make shittier versions of it. FTFY.
anoncastillo ago
Japan and South Korea make better cars than the Us and Germany.
Sparky159 ago
SoKo is the leading producer and innovator of the world's superconductors
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edistojim ago
I didn't take a renowned scientist to tell most people that niggers are stupid. Look around.
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