The Crucifixion of James Watson

January 18, 2019 By Andrew Benjamin

CNN reports: "James Watson, who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s based on the work of British chemist Rosalind Franklin, said in a PBS film that genes cause a difference in intelligence between white and black people in IQ tests. "The 90-year-old's comments were labeled 'reprehensible' by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on New York's Long Island, where Watson had been the director from 1968 to 1993.

 

The laboratory said it 'unequivocally rejects the unsubstantiated and reckless personal opinions Dr. James D. Watson expressed,' noting the statements were 'reprehensible [and] unsupported by science[.]'"  Watson was shortly relieved of his administrative duties, but not his title.............The various reports and commentary filtering though the groupthink media illustrate the disingenuous thinking behind them: that while they assert that stupidity "should not be" linked to genes, the actual evidence suggests that intelligence indeed is.  Science, math, and statistics draw conclusions based on not what ought to be, or what will not offend, but what is.

Not surprisingly, the selfsame cast of characters who have conspired to nullify the votes of 63 million Americans and overthrow the government of the United States also want to bury for good Watson the man and his story.  They take affront and even resort to violence to exclude those whose opinion does not submit to their view and will ostracize and shout down the only diversity worth having: the diversity of opinion.............Read more