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Loathe as I am to admit it, a copy of James Watson's historical novel The Double Helix does reside on one of my bookshelves. (Though I did purchase it in a used bookstore, so he garnered no profit from me.) As you may recall, The Double Helix, based loosely on Watson's experiences in England at…
I've written in the recent past about why Jim Watson is bad for science, especially the perception non-scientists get of science as a result of his pseudo-scientific racist natterings. I analyzed the reactions within the scientific community to the recent Watson imbroglio.
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By now everyone knows that Jim Watson has resigned his position at CSHL. But the damage he's done will live on long afterwards. Consider this comment from a reader (emphasis added):
As a non-scientist, I'd like to point out an unpredictable side-effect of Watson's remarks that might make…
The latest Watson news is that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has "suspended [his] administrative responsibilities...pending further deliberation by the board." Watson, meanwhile, has begun the "Did I say that? No! I didn't mean it!" apologia that usually follows when some noted figure catches…
My friends at the Institute for Systems Biology (in Seattle) started a seminar series entitled; "Who says women don't take risks?" after Watson came to the ISB and shared his view that women are unable to think 3 dimensionally, take risks, or be entrepreneurs.
The least we can do is take his genome apart.
I think we should establish prize money for the first team to successfully breed a Venter/Watson hybrid.
If you go to wikipedia's entry for James Watson, there's a cute little box at the right of the page titled "DNA Pioneers" with the following linked names:
William Astbury
Oswald Avery
Erwin Chargaff
Max Delbrück
Jerry Donohue
Raymond Gosling
Phoebus Levene
Linus Pauling
Sir John Randall
Erwin Schrödinger
Alec Stokes
Herbert Wilson
Rosalind Franklin's name doesn't appear, even though the same box with the same names appears on her wiki page.