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James Watson's Legacy
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| James Watson is the most distinguished scientist living today. | |
| He shared the Nobel Prize with Francis Crick in 1962 for discovering the molecular structure of DNA. | |
| Other Nobel laureates have called this discovery the greatest single scientific achievement of the 20th century. | |
| James Watson ran Cold Spring Harbor for 35 years and built it into the top molecular genetics research laboratory in the world. | |
| He played a key role in the Human Genome Project, which has already started a revolution in medicine, biology, and psychology. | |
| And now, at age 90, James Watson is an object of hate and contempt. | |
| His downfall began in 2007 when he wrote a book called Avoid Boring People. | |
| That contained the following sentence. | |
| There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. | |
| That same year, he explained that sentence to a reporter. | |
| He said he was, and I quote, 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. | |
| In other words, different groups evolved separately, and there is probably a genetic basis for differences in average intelligence. | |
| This view is supported by an immense body of scholarship and is consistent with everything we see when we open our eyes and just look around. | |
| But we live in a world gone insane. | |
| We're supposed to at least pretend to believe egalitarian nonsense, and so the sky fell on James Watson. | |
| He immediately issued a servile apology. | |
| I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said. | |
| He then went on to say there is no scientific basis for his views. | |
| But heretics are not allowed to recant. | |
| Cold Spring Harbor fired him as boss of the lab, and Henry Kelly, a former president of the Federation of American Scientists, said, It is a revolting way to end a remarkable career. | |
| But the apology did get Dr. Watson something. | |
| Cold Spring Harbor let him keep his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, and Honorary Trustee. | |
| Even so, speaking engagements and award ceremonies vanished, and James Watson became a non-person. | |
| Well, last May, he briefly re-emerged. | |
| There was a meeting at Cold Spring Harbor where Eric Lander, a bigwig scientist at Harvard and MIT, offered a short toast to Dr. Watson's vital contributions to the Human Genome Project. | |
| And he was mercilessly attacked. | |
| for saying something nice about a wicked man. | |
| Dr. Lander groveled as follows. | |
| His views are abhorrent, racist, sexist, anti-Semitic. | |
| I was wrong to toast. | |
| I apologize. | |
| And so James Watson sunk once again into obscurity. | |
| Until this month. | |
| PBS aired a documentary called Decoding Watson, in which he was asked if he still had the same views on race. | |
| The scientist got the better of the man. | |
| He said he takes no pleasure in the differences between blacks and whites and wishes there weren't any, but genes are part of it. | |
| Again, the sky fell. | |
| Dr. Watson's old lab went into a frenzy and issued the following statement from which I quote. | |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory unequivocally rejects the unsubstantiated and reckless personal opinions of Dr. James D. Watson. | |
| His statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science. | |
| Let's stop right there. | |
| I have no fewer than 13 books in my personal library, rigorously scientific books that support Dr. Watson's statements. | |
| Besides these books, there are countless articles in scientific journals about their genetic basis for group differences in intelligence. | |
| 1,200 people work at Cold Spring Harbor. | |
| Is every one of them lost in a hermetically sealed cocoon of complete ignorance? | |
| Or are they just spineless cowards lying through their teeth because they're afraid of the ignorant fanatics who run this country? | |
| But let's get back to their miserable statement. | |
| The laboratory condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice. | |
| Right. The world's greatest living scientist misuses science. | |
| No. He says he wishes there were no racial differences. | |
| But the evidence suggests that there are. | |
| This is science triumphing over emotion. | |
| That's exactly what it's supposed to do. | |
| And here's more mush from Cold Spring Harbor. | |
| The statements James Watson made in the documentary are completely and utterly incompatible with our mission, values, and policies, and require the severing of any remaining vestiges of his involvement. | |
| And with that, Cold Spring Harbor stripped him of all his remaining honorary titles. | |
| Are they going to dust the lab for his fingerprints and rub them all out too? | |
| This is like... | |
| The commies, who used to doctor photographs of old Bolsheviks to erase the comrades they'd hauled out and shot. | |
| Today, the authorities don't shoot people who fail to tow the party line. | |
| They just drag them through the mud, destroy their reputations, fire them from their jobs, and feel immensely superior about it. | |
| Geneticist Joseph L. Graves, for example, is now saying, Racism suspends all rational judgment. | |
| It takes people who are otherwise brilliant and gets them down roads that are intellectually unsupportable. | |
| The website The Scientist says, The science jerks and bigots should be shunned, no matter if they have a Nobel Prize. | |
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Ashamed to Speak
00:01:20
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| Now every lefty ignoramus can think he is superior to one of the greatest intellects of our time. | |
| Last October, James Watson was in a car accident. | |
| His son says he has, quote, very minimal awareness of what's going on. | |
| He cannot speak for himself. | |
| So I'll speak for him. | |
| His treatment has been beyond appalling. | |
| Mark Twain once said, This is one of those times. | |
| I'm ashamed to be a member of the species that has put on such a spectacle of ignorance, vanity, cowardice, and spitefulness. | |
| The truth will emerge, no matter how hard the fanatics try to hush it up. | |
| James Watson is as much a pioneer and a bold thinker at the end of his career as he was at the beginning. | |
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