{"id":125510,"date":"2019-01-01T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=125510"},"modified":"2023-08-18T03:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:31:41","slug":"nyt-james-watson-wont-stop-talking-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=125510","title":{"rendered":"NYT: James Watson Won\u2019t Stop Talking About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v9gnz7\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v9gnz7\",\"div\":\"rumble_v9gnz7\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v2u7mnt\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v2u7mnt\",\"div\":\"rumble_v2u7mnt\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/01\/science\/watson-dna-genetics-race.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">Amy Harmon writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he\u2019s right, a new documentary finds.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cinherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa\u201d because \u201call our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says, not really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he added, although he wished everyone were equal, \u201cpeople who have to deal with black employees find this not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Watson\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>He apologized publicly and \u201cunreservedly,\u2019\u2019 and in later interviews he sometimes suggested that he had been playing the provocateur \u2014 his trademark role \u2014 or had not understood that his comments would be made public.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cnonperson.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But his remarks have lingered. They have been invoked to support white supremacist views, and scientists routinely excoriate Dr. Watson when his name surfaces on social media.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s involvement in the early days of the Human Genome Project. Dr. Lander quickly apologized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reject his views as despicable,\u201d Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. \u201cThey have no place in science, which must welcome everyone. I was wrong to toast, and I\u2019m sorry.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job<br \/>\nAnd 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, \u201cAmerican Masters: Decoding Watson,\u2019\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Watson said. \u201cNot 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\u2019t seen any knowledge. And there\u2019s a difference on the average between blacks and whites on I.Q. tests. 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