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Dr. James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has passed away, leaving behind not just a legacy of scientific brilliance but also a reminder of what happens when truth collides with political correctness.
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Watson was one of the rare minds who changed the way humanity understands itself. He helped unlock the double helix, which is the blueprint of life, a discovery that transformed medicine, genetics, and anthropology forever. But in the end, it wasn’t science that canceled him. It was honesty.
When Watson spoke openly about genetics and intelligence, making observations grounded in data, not ideology, the same scientific community that once hailed him as a hero turned on him. Mr. Watson merely stated that genetics and race influence human intelligence.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has died at age 97.
His career was long and distinguished. Aside from making one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century1, he wrote an influential textbookand a best-selling popular science book, served as director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for quarter of a century, and helped to establish the Human Genome Project. Unsurprisingly, his contributions were honoured with numerous awards and prizes, including the Nobel Prize in 1962 and the Copley Medal in 1993. Watson was considered to be among the greatest scientists of his generation. Until.
In a 2007 interview with the Sunday Times, Watson made the mistake of giving his honest opinion about a controversial subject. Stating that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa”, he noted that “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really”. He also made the indelicate comment that, although he hoped everyone was equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true”.
Watson subsequently came out and said he was “mortified” that his remarks had caused offence, but the damage was done. He was suspended as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor. Forthcoming lectures were cancelled and honorary degrees were revoked. His career was essentially over.
Despite becoming an “unperson”, in his own words, Watson was allowed to stay on at Cold Spring Harbor as “chancellor emeritus”. Yet even this title was rescinded in 2019, after the airing of a documentary in which Watson stated that his views on race and intelligence had not changed “at all”.
Because of his honesty, his titles were stripped, his reputation was smeared, and his name was blacklisted from the institutions that were built on his miraculous discoveries.
One especially heartwarming story comes to mind. After Dr. Watson had his Nobel Prize stripped away, he sold it — and the richest man in Russia bought it, only to promptly give it back to him.
The richest man in Russia and a major shareholder in Arsenal football club has come forward as the buyer of James Watson’s Nobel medal – declaring that he now plans to give the piece back.
Alisher Usmanov, the Russian entrepreneur, paid $4.1m (£2.6m) for the medal at an auction at Christie’s in New York city last week, but said he will return it to Watson, who with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, shared the 1962 Nobel prize in medicine for discovering the double helical structure of DNA.
Usmanov, whose steel, mining and other assets are worth $15bn according to Forbes, said he wanted the medal to remain with its rightful owner and for the money he spent on the item to be donated to scientific research.
“In my opinion, a situation in which an outstanding scientist has to sell a medal recognising his achievements is unacceptable,” Usmanov said in a statement.
“James Watson is one of the greatest biologists in the history of mankind and his award for the discovery of DNA structure must belong to him,” he added.
Watson became the first living laureate to auction his Nobel medal in a sale that earned far more than the $3m that some experts had predicted. Last year, the family of Francis Crick, who died in 2004, sold his medal for $2.27m.
Before the auction, Watson said he was selling the medal to raise money for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, from where he was suspended as chancellor after he claimed that black people were not as intelligent as whites.
Sad. But this is the world we live in now. A world that celebrates the “truth” only when it’s cloaked in political correctness. The left worships “experts” until those experts start saying things that make them feel uncomfortable. Then suddenly, facts become “hate,” and data becomes “dangerous to democracy.”
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James D. Watson never bowed to that pressure. He lived and died as what every real scientist should be… a man who believed truth exists whether people like it or not. And in a time when courage and honesty are pretty much extinct, he stood alone and didn’t budge.
Rest in peace, Dr. Watson… you were a true pioneer who put truth before applause. The world may not have deserved such a man, but it will never forget him.
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