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The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds.
“Decoding Watson,” a new film about Dr. James D. Watson explores the gulf between his scientific brilliance and his views on race.
It has been more than a decade since James D. Watson, a founder of modern genetics, landed in a kind of professional exile by suggesting that black people are intrinsically less intelligent than whites.
In 2007, Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, told a British journalist 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.”
Moreover, he added, although he wished everyone were equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.” Dr. Watson’s comments reverberated around the world, and he was forced to retire from his job as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, although he retains an office there.
He apologized publicly and “unreservedly,’’ and in later interviews he sometimes suggested that he had been playing the provocateur — his trademark role — or had not understood that his comments would be made public.
Ever since, Dr. Watson, 90, has been largely absent from the public eye. His speaking invitations evaporated. In 2014, he became the first living Nobelist to sell his medal, citing a depleted income from having been designated a “nonperson.’’
But his remarks have lingered. They have been invoked to support white supremacist views, and scientists routinely excoriate Dr. Watson when his name surfaces on social media.
Eric Lander, the director of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, elicited an outcry last spring with a toast he made to Dr. Watson’s involvement in the early days of the Human Genome Project. Dr. Lander quickly apologized.
“I reject his views as despicable,” Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. “They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone. I was wrong to toast, and I’m sorry.’’
And yet, offered the chance recently to recast a tarnished legacy, Dr. Watson has chosen to reaffirm it, this time on camera. In a new documentary, “American Masters: Decoding Watson,’’ to be broadcast on P.B.S. on Wednesday night, he is asked whether his views about the relationship between race and intelligence have changed.
“No,’’ Dr. Watson said. “Not at all. I would like for them to have changed, that there be new knowledge that says that your nurture is much more important than nature. But I haven’t seen any knowledge. And there’s a difference on the average between blacks and whites on I.Q. tests. I would say the difference is, it’s genetic.’’
Dr. Watson adds that he takes no pleasure in “the difference between blacks and whites’’ and wishes it didn’t exist. “It’s awful, just like it’s awful for schizophrenics,’’ he says. (His son Rufus was diagnosed in his teens with schizophrenia.) Dr. Watson continues: “If the difference exists, we have to ask ourselves, how can we try and make it better?”
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“There are powerful methods for studying the genetic and environmental origins of individual differences, but not for studying the causes of average differences between groups,” Dr. Plomin he writes in an afterword to be published this spring in the paperback edition of his book, “Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.”
Whether Dr. Watson was aware of any of this science is unclear. In the film, he appears to have grown increasingly isolated. He mentions missing Francis Crick, his collaborator in the race to decipher the structure of DNA.
“We liked each other,’’ Dr. Watson says of Dr. Crick. “I couldn’t get enough of him.’’
As history now knows, the duo was able to solve the puzzle in 1953, with their hallmark models of cardboard and metal only with the help of another scientist, Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray photograph of the DNA molecule was shown to Dr. Watson without her permission.
The tools of molecular biology unlocked by their discovery have since been used to trace humanity’s prehistory, devise lifesaving therapies, and develop Crispr, a gene-editing technology that was used recently, and unethically, to alter the DNA of twin human embryos.
And Dr. Watson became perhaps the most influential biologist of the second half of the 20th century. His textbook, “Molecular Biology of the Gene,’’ helped define the new field. First in a laboratory at Harvard and then at Cold Spring Harbor, he trained a new generation of molecular biologists and used his star power to champion such projects as the first sequencing of the human genome.
“You knew when you heard him that you were at the start of a revolution in understanding,’’ Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied with Dr. Watson in the 1960s, says in “Decoding Watson.’’
“You felt as if you were part of this tiny group of people who had seen the light.’’
DOHA, QATAR—Though her words were powerful, it was what Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad didn’t say that echoed with a pall long after the standing ovation she received by the audience at the Doha Forum Sunday in Qatar.
She did not utter the words “United States” once in the painful 45-minute interview this morning, but we all knew it was the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 that created the conditions for the near obliteration of Yazidi villages—including her home of Kocho—from the Iraqi map. It was here in this mountainous region in the north of the country that her people had settled and farmed the land for thousands of years and co-existed as an ethnic and religious minority. Today, she described Sinjar, occupied first by ISIS and then by various militias since 2014, as “completely destroyed, the buildings and schools empty, like ghost villages.”
Now, five years after the ISIS massacres that left over 3,000 Yazidis dead (most executed and buried alive) and over 6,000 kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery or brought into ISIS indoctrination camps, most of the population of 500,000 remain displaced, many in refugee camps. Some 4,000 people are camped out at the top of Mount Sinjar with no running water or electricity, feeling very much forgotten by the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, as Yazidi women and girls are slowly rescued by non-government entities from their captors across Syria and Iraq (there are still an estimated 3,200 still in the hands Daesh, says Murad), they are getting much needed care and longer-term treatment in Germany, Canada, Australia and France. Missing from that list is the United States. Washington’s help came early and were brief: airstrikes on ISIS militants in Sinjar during the massacre in August 2014 and dropping aid to the Yazidis who fled to the mountaintop in the chaos. Determined to keep America’s re-entry into Iraq to a minimum, President Obama sent no further armed assistance to help stop the ensuing occupation, killings or abductions.
There are 550 Yazidi refugees in the U.S. today.
Murad, 25, is strikingly youthful in appearance but for her eyes, which are world weary, and sad. For good reason: six of her brothers were killed when Daesh raided her village in August 2014. Her mother was also killed, along with the older women and elderly. She was taken then, with the younger females of her family, and held as a sex slave in an ISIS-held home in Mosul. After repeated rapes and beatings, she escaped within months, and was living in a container in a refugee camp when she told the world her story in February 2015.
‘I’m sick of this little b****’: Daycare worker admits killing eight-month-old girl by suffocating her with a blanket after complaining she wouldn’t sleep as CCTV shows dying child thrashing her legs to escape
- Reese Bowman was killed by Leah Walden, 24, at the Rocket Tiers center in Baltimore last May
- Walden suffocated Bowman with a blanket in the horrifying incident
Leah Walden (pictured) was said to have been frustrated at Bowman because the baby wouldn’t go to sleep
- She pleaded guilty to the murder on Tuesday and was sentenced to 70 years
- The court heard she was frustrated at Bowman because she wouldn’t fall asleep
A daycare worker has pleaded guilty to killing an eight month-old girl by smothering her with a blanket because she wouldn’t go to sleep.
Leah Walden, 24, admitted the murder of little Reese Bowman, at Rocket Tiers Learning Center, Baltimore in May 2017, at a court hearing on Tuesday, wbaltv reports.
Walden was sentenced to 70 years in prison for the horrifying killing by Judge Althea Handy who sobbed as she handed it down.
In heartbreaking scenes, Reese’s father Justin Bowman wept as he told the court: ‘I will never see my girl take her first steps, hold her, kiss her, comfort her when she’s scared, hear her say “I love you”. I am devastated.’
Turning to Walden and pointing he said: ‘Reese Annette Bowman accomplished more in her short life than this woman ever will.’
Walden tried to explain her actions by saying she had snapped and had not been given appropriate training or assistance for her job.
Assistant State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said Walden had told a co-worker, ‘Girl, I’m frustrated. I’m sick of this little b****. I hate this little b****. She makes me want to punch her in the face.’
Posted by DanielS on Saturday, 24 November 2018 03:46.
BPR, ‘Judge declares mistrial for man who confessed to murdering Queens jogger, wishes jury happy holiday”, 21 Nov 2018:
After deliberating just 13 hours over two days, a Queens jury announced that it was deadlocked in the case of jogger Karina Vetrano, who was brutally beaten and raped two years ago before being strangled to death.
The hung jury was announced late Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving, resulting in Judge Michael Aloise granting a defense mistrial motion and dismissing the jury, CBS New York reported.
Chanel Lewis, 22, was accused of attacking Vetrano in August 2016 and dumping her naked body in weeds near a jogging path. The evidence against Lewis, who pleaded not guilty, included DNA evidence linking him to the crime scene and a recording of him confessing.
Lewis admitted in a taped confession he killed Vetrano, but his lawyers claimed the statement was coerced. His DNA was found on the 30-year-old victim’s neck, under her fingernails and on her cellphone.
“After deliberating for the entire day we are split. It doesn’t seem like we can make progress. We feel that we have exhausted all of our options,” the seven-woman, five-man jury wrote in a note to Judge Aloise, according to the New York Post.
The impasse prompted Lewis’ attorney moved for a mistrial and Aloise unexpectedly granted it, according to The Post.
“Oh my God!” a Vetrano relative cried out.
The Post reported that before wishing jurors a happy holiday, the judge explained why he granted the defense motion.
“I’m inclined to agree, even though it’s only been a day and a half,” Aloise said. “There were extensive deliberations. They covered issues central to the debate.”
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Hitler and Nazism were Not White Nationalism, Part 3
Thus we have established a first principle of this discourse, a positive tautology that the World Wars are history, the people of today are not to blame and should not be subject to the collective punishment of losing their peoplehood and corresponding nations.
There is a second principle that we will invoke at this point, one which the internet has provided for in spades, but which White Nationalists have not utilized to anything like its full potential.
That is correctability, the correctability of ideas and understanding through interactive participation, whether through comments or speaking directly to people and engaging correction.
To date, what has been imposed as if correction, has largely been World War II revisionism - which tends to be dishonest excuses and apologetics for Nazi imperialism where not outright recitation of Nazi propaganda that could be falsified rather easily if they cared to do it.
Misrepresentation and omissions of important facts can remain if would-be interlocutors are not of good faith, don’t really want to pursue the truth, though Nazi apologetics usually claim the truth as their mission.
On the other hand, taking interactive correctability for granted and expecting the voices of correction to chime-in has left me susceptible to allow oversights to linger, because many would-be WN, who’ve accepted the rightist identity and its own political correctness will not say “boo” and alert me to oversights, especially when calling attention to these matters will call negative attention and shoot holes in their pro-Hitler/Nazi position.
Graudenz, Kulm, Thorn and Bromberg, a would-be occlusive salient. To the south of those cities, Poznan and Gniezno are the cradle of Polish nationhood.
There is a third and ancillary tautology to be invoked which is that for whatever grievances that either side had of the times, they were more than made up for.
We will apply this as a third tautological principle then, after ‘it’s history and nobody had anything to do with it’, and after correctability, that is, the tautology that for whatever complaints of the time, “they more than made up for it in retaliation.”
We will take a critical perspective on grievances and injustices alleged by the Nazi apologists, such as allegations made against Polish nationals and partisans, since those allegations have tended to go uncorrected within the philoNazistic PC of so called White Nationalism.
But we need to circle back to our second principle at this point, which is interactive correctability and the fact that so called WN has not been acting in good faith to call matters to attention, especially when they would reflect badly on Nazi Germany.
In previous discussions of Hitler’s complaints over where Versailles borders were drawn, I have made the claim that there were really only three cities of significance lost by Germany - Poznan, Bromberg and Thorn and one made neutral, Danzig (made neutral, not Polish, as in something the Poles could unilaterally return to Germany as misinformed Hitler apologists often claim they should have); and there were some village areas in the corridor and near the Versailles established border where Germans were caught in Polish territory, and we must add that there were Poles caught in German territory. But though Danzig was at the time occupied by Germans, it was a historically disputed city and a strategic city for all concerned, thus justifiably deemed neutral by Versailles. Cities to the south of the corridor, such as Poznan, Gniezno and Leszno, should not have been considered anything remotely but Polish.
While it is true that in previous discussions of this issue I had neglected to mention two cities of significance in the Polish corridor which were inhabited by Germans, Graudenz and Kulm , known in Polish as Grudziądz and Chelmno, it does not change the thesis.
First of all, circling to principle three (mis-spoke; it is “principle two”, correctability that is invoked here) again, that the comment section has been open and feedback of good will is expected to correct oversights such as that.
More fundamentally, these cities being under German political jurisdiction would only extend the salient that would be formed by Bromberg and Torun to obstruct and potentially occlude crucial strategic and economic sea access for Poland.
In addition, Graudenz and Klum were formed of brutal Teutonic and Prussian imperialism on cities that were originally Polish.
Finally, it is a history that only provides more examples of the enormous toll that the Nazis took against impositions of Polish patriotism in these areas; invoking principle three, that they more than made up for it.
Thus, it is no wonder that the Hitler redemptionists didn’t particularly care to take me up on my open offer to correct whatever prior oversights of mine…
No, the Hitler redemptionists, in their claim to be after the truth of history, tend to begin history at or about World War I. And of course, Germany was a sheer victim of the rest of the world, from the Schiff’s backing of the Trotskies, to the Balfour Declaration to the Treaty of Versailles. But really, to do enthnonationalism justice, we need to go further back in history…
Posted by DanielS on Saturday, 10 November 2018 19:20.
Nordic episode: penchant to confront Augustinian, natural challenges, exposes naive susceptibility to invasive, viz. Manichean species?
An illustrative episode in which:
A Nordic woman expresses her nature to confront the Augustinian (Augustinian devils = natural devils, e.g., the cold), and anthropomorphized as such, indicates her natural inclination’s potential naivete and susceptibility to invasive, human species, particularly those of a more Manichean, trickster nature (Manichean = human, trickster devils, that can change the rules).
Augustinianism would be an evolutionary adaptation by those people confronted primarily with natural challenges (such as in the cold north), while Manicheanism would be an increased evolutionary adaptation by those confronted primarily by inter-tribal challenges (as in the Middle East)
Posted by DanielS on Saturday, 27 October 2018 19:17.
US President Donald Trump has predicted that America is going to have many black presidents in the future—a claim which is certain to come true as that country’s under 18 population becomes majority nonwhite in just two years’ time.
New Observer, “Trump Predicts Many Black Presidents for USA” 27 Oct 2018:
Speaking during the “2018 Young Black Leadership Summit” held at the White House on October 26 (note there is no “Young White Leadership Summit,” because that would be racist), Trump told several hundred black Republican supporters that it was “great, great honor” to host them in the White House.
“So you are really very special people. I wanted to say that before our little talk, and I appreciate the time you’ve given me, and boy, one—one day, one of you is going to be standing—it could be three or four of you, actually. But you’re going to be standing right here. You’re going to be standing right here.
“I have no doubt. I have no doubt. Who—who in this room, who in this room wants to be president some day? So it’s an ambitious group. It’s an ambitious group. That’s great.”
“Seeing all of you here today fills me with an extraordinary confidence in America’s future, and the great, great future of our country. Each of you is taking part in the Young Black Leadership Summit because you are true leaders on your campuses, in your churches and in your communities.
“You are leaders. Leaders of the future. You’re leaders of the present, also. Remember that. You’re leaders of youth. But it’s—it’s really something, to be your age and where are you standing? In the White House. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. And each of you is playing a historic role in making America great again for all Americans.”
During that year, the US Census Bureau said, “whites” will comprise 49.7 percent of the population in contrast to 24.6 percent for Hispanics, 13.1 percent for blacks, 7.9 percent for Asians, and 3.8 percent for multiracial population.
Because nonwhites as a group are younger than whites, the minority white tipping point comes earlier for younger age groups. The census projections indicate that, for youth under 18–the post-millennial population–nonwhites will outnumber whites in 2020—just two years away.
For those age 18-29–members of the younger labor force and voting age populations–the tipping point will occur in 2027.
By 2060, the census projects whites will comprise only 36 percent of the under age 18 population, with Hispanics accounting for 32 percent.
This prediction uses the infamously inaccurate federal definition of “white,” so the actual number of whites is sure to be even less than the official statistics.
These figures show clearly that unless white Americans start congegrating in an area and actively prepare for a balkanization of that country, they face obliteration at the hands of the growing Third World population.
Another beautiful young Italian girl has been raped and murdered by Diversity.
Desiree Mariottini was from San Lorenzo in Rome. Her body was found inside an abandoned slum building, known as a haunt of brown-skinned drug dealers. A woman from the local area said her tablet had been stolen by someone there and she went to try and retrieve it.
According to eye-witnesses, she was drugged, raped and ultimately murdered by a group of Arabs and Africans. The cause of death hasn’t yet been determined. Someone made an anonymous call to the emergency services at 3 o’ clock in the morning on the night in question. They turned up, found chains on the door and then left.
The rapists put her clothes on after her death to try and make it look like an overdose.
This case might produce a reaction similar to the earlier Pamela Mastropietro case, which helped propel Salvini to power. Since he is now the Interior Minister, he is in a much better position to exploit it for political propaganda purposes.
Perhaps it’s a sad commentary on human nature that the death of a beautiful girl affects us more profoundly than the death of an ugly one, but that does seem to be how it is. Whatever helps jolt the NPCs out of their default programming. Her death is already producing a reaction locally.
Regular rape and murder by Diversity is part of the price Italians must pay for having a greater variety of ethnic cuisine. Why they would want this went they already have Italian food available to them is not clear.
UPDATE:
Locals have been laying floral tributes to the dead girl.
Desiree Mariottini was from San Lorenzo in Rome
Salvini turned up, wanting to lay a white rose, but a bunch of screeching women from the local social care centre mobbed him and blocked his passage. They shouted “Jackal” at him and accused him of exploiting the girl’s death. His security then ushered him away.
Other people applauded Salvini and said “We are all with you”.
Salvini declared: “We’re going to do harm to the dealers. We will recover legality street by street, district by district. We are working to put these worms, these beasts, in jail. I fear that this time again they will all be foreign citizens. Justice will be done for this girl. Full Stop.”
Graudenz, Kulm, Thorn and Bromberg, a would-be occlusive salient. To the south of those cities, Poznan and Gniezno are the cradle of Polish nationhood.
James Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962 along with Francis Crick for discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
Nobel Peace Price 2018 winner Nadia Murad speaks at the Doha Forum in Qatar on Dec. 16, 2018. (Kelley Vlahos/TAC)
Leah Walden (pictured) was said to have been frustrated at Bowman because the baby wouldn’t go to sleep
Desiree Mariottini
Desiree Mariottini was from San Lorenzo in Rome