http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_te...cle3067222.ece
Is he? Or is there truth to his research? If there is truth to this study, how do you think this could effect race relations? And one final question, if something is "true" is it racist?
Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_te...cle3067222.ece
Is he? Or is there truth to his research? If there is truth to this study, how do you think this could effect race relations? And one final question, if something is "true" is it racist?
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
His Nobel was in 1962, for work absolutely unrelated to comparative racial intelligence abilities. He's a doddering 79 now. What he thinks about anything other than DNA structure... say the price of rice in Bangladore, is as relevantly authoritative as any opinion you or I hold.
I might buy him a beer in the pub, just to hear his rant; but in the end, I'd wrap his non-DNA opinions in tomorrow's fish-paper, along with those other "I used to be somebody" fellas.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
You'd buy a racist a beer?Originally Posted by KukriKhan
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
Hell, I'd buy a headless chicken a beer, just to see him dance.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
You'd give beer to a poor dying chicken to prolong its suffering for your own amusement?
Sorry, I just can't help myself.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
o'Course. PETA be damned. Chickens were put on this earth for our sustenance and amusement.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
Well this article certainly pushed somebody's button... Do you have any proof Watson is a "doddering 79" now? I'd love to see copies of his medical records citing senility or other similarly debilitating ailments. Methinks if Watson said something that catered to your own beliefs in this area you'd probably be singing his praises right now.
As far as I'm concerned all Watson did was make a few offhand remarks that reminded people of the 800 lb gorilla that refuses to leave the room...
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Posting that link is plain ridiculous. Stupid people appear in every skin colour, and it should not be necessary to point out.
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I know. I'm making fun of this thread, or more the reason it was posted.Posting that link is plain ridiculous. Stupid people appear in every skin colour, and it should not be necessary to point out.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
I guess I was unclear. "Buy him a beer", I say - let him speak. I just would not attach extra weight to his out-of-his-field-of-expertise views solely because of his work 40+ years ago. Any more than I would attach extra weight to Dick Cheney's views on Aussie-rules footy.
If he's a racist with wacky theories of racial superiority, that will be obvious in the clear light of day. If he has serious science behind his views, the sanitizing rays of free speech will reveal that also. That's gonna be a hard case for him to present, and I'm not sure he's up to it. But, heck, let him speak.
If everyone else turns him down, someone invite him here. We'll listen.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
I wouldn't be surprised. He's openly sexist. You can look up info on Rosalind Franklin to see who probably should have been the fourth name on that Nobel Prize.
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Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
Technically speaking, yeah this would be racist. Study's like this are useless, only makes people feel bad about theirselves and you can't make any policy out of it in the first place because you can't discriminate on race.
Re: Is this Nobel Prize winner a racist?
Yes but dead people can't be given the Nobel Prize. She died 3 years before it was given.
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