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When the dust has (slightly) settled: was Watson being intentionally racist?

It is always interesting how we can gain some more perspective and judgement when an issue has settled down a little. The James Watson issue must have been one of the most blogged about and talked issue in the last three days. Like that of many others, my instant reaction was one of immense disdain [...]

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When scientists get old and boring…

…they may wish to spice up their public image with something provocative. Well, it seems that the codiscoverer of DNA James Watson has always had the wrong definition of “provocative”, and this time he seems to have really done it and positively inflamed everyone with his comments about people of African descent being less smarter [...]

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