Or so claims this prick.
I admit I hadn't heard about the man until today, but it seems that our good Dr. James D. Watson, who co-discovered the DNA and won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for it, believes that we are genetically less intelligent than white people.
A lecture he was to give at the Sciences Museum in London, where he was due to discuss his 'results', was cancelled.
He also believes that if a genetic tests determines that an unborn child will be a homosexual, this should be ground enough for abortion.
May I suggest that we:
a) Send this white supremacist asshole to the Middle Ages where he belongs
b) Revoke the Nobel Prize he won
and c) Can we also ask why it's okay to stop an idiot from saying that Blacks are stupid even if the guy is a big shot scientist, while we aren't allowed to object on every other idiot who wants to say that Muslims are inherently violent and this kind of nonsense?
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Update: This is what Le Monde's Plantu had to say (or draw) about it.
Many thanks to Seg!!
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Update: This is what Le Monde's Plantu had to say (or draw) about it.
Many thanks to Seg!!
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Heeeeey! Welcome back!
Tu me manquais deja....
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He should meet with Sarkozy, he has the most surprising beliefs on genetic issues.
May I suggest that we:
a) Send this white supremacist asshole to the Middle Ages where he belongs
b) Revoke the presidency he won
(as for your c, I have the feeling that nowadays in France, it's 'worst' to be Black then Muslim. So I guess a Black Muslim makes you a cruel, barabaric and violent animal of some sort who eats the hearts of his enemies end burns his wives to death after having them lapidated and having cut their right hand.
Good luck with that my friend!
He has been well known for his bizarre views for some time. He and his colleague owe a lot of their work to Rosalind Franklin but he has always acted in the most petty way to ensure she received no credit for it. (B+ Poster)
htur: Darling, darling! I'd keep coming back just for you, you know that ;)
Seg: Yeah, that sucks. My mother should have married an Irish Catholic. This way, my name would've been something like 'Sebastian O'Toole', I'd have green eyes, an EU passport, and still a nationalist cause to lobby for.
Good luck to you guys with the DNA testing, I've been following the issue. I hope it doesn't pass.. (or has it already?)
Soon they'll be cutting the people applying for welfare up to count the age rings... :-)
I'm glad for Cecile for breaking away from our beloved Napoleon..
Claire: BeePlus, you have a name!! :-P I still like Bee, though. I'm sticking to that.
Well I didn't know who Rosalind Franklin but i went reading about her after your post and all I can say is, this is one of the few times where I think it sucks that the Nobel Prize cannot be given posthumously. It'd have been fun to see Watson sitting there (in the back of the bus, if you please) watching as the Nobel Committee gave the prize to a dead woman...
Watson and Crick say that they couldn't cite Franklin's work in their research because it was unpublished.
Of course, if you use this excuse in grad school, you are sent to the ethics committee.
Pffff...
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