"Mr. Watson, Go away.. I don't need you"..

[SoCalDem]

Hah..

Dr Watson, Nobel winner is suspended and his book tour is OVER..

Apparently his racist homophobia was not well-received :)


http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=4719d83e035344db&ei=pCAZR-qGDaXeqwPwmZjNBA&url=http%3A//www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2697559.ece&cid=1122252310&sig2=7aodrkoNCTG5ckXcJW-06gFrom The Times
October 20, 2007

Scientist James Watson flies home after employers suspend him
Rajeev Syal

The Nobel Laureate who provoked an international row by apparently claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites left Britain in disgrace yesterday after being suspended from his job.

James Watson, in London to promote a new book, was forced to return to New York after Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, relieved him of his duties because of his apparent views. It follows a hellish week for the 79-year-old geneticist who helped to unravel the structure of DNA more than 50 years ago. After being quoted in The Sunday Times saying that he was “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”, Dr Watson added that he hoped everyone was equal, but that “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true”.

Yesterday, the prestigious scientific institute where he has worked for 35 years issued a terse statement halting his responsibilities. It will come as a devastating and personal blow to Dr Watson who has served as the laboratory's director and president.

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* Are black people any less intelligent than whites?

The suspension prompted Dr Watson to cancel a string of speaking engagements in Britain that were meant to take place to promote his book. Yesterday morning, his publicist at Oxford University Press said that he had flown back to the US to “sort out” his job. “He returned to the United States this morning because of circumstances back home at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,” Kate Farquhar-Thomson said. “He felt that’s where he needed to be.” The row had escalated when the Science Museum in London cancelled a presentation with Dr Watson. David Lammy, Minister for Skills, claimed that Dr Watson’s views were discredited and would help far-right organisations such as the British National Party.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Watson is sort of an idiot savant. He was on a local program

& was barely coherent.

[Sequoia]

2. Mr. Watson...who built the Pyramids of Egypt.

This guy?