The only reason this goober is even famous in the first place is because he treated Rosalind Franklin like a lab assistant.
I met this man ten years ago at my workplace. He’s spiteful, pretentious, and at the very least since his senility, is just a constant dribble of complete and utter anti-scientific nonsense. Sadly he and Francis Crick both praised eugenics.
I’ve also met some good’uns in Biological science, but these guys weren’t it.
Black Sun and PrickI also would like to add that this “Great Man theory of History” is wrong for Watson quite a bit. A lot of that is already referenced in this thread, but I would like to point to the collective effort of untangling DNA that did preced Watson. Without him there would still be all the results we got now there. When Watson was born there were already ideas of what could be described as DNA, but of course the imaging is quite important, but it was bound to happen (unless a nuclear war would’ve broken out).
Also: no Lysenko apologia on my watch
I don’t think I’ve ever met a biologist with anything but contempt and disgust for James Watson. Absolute piece of shit.
Everyone who has ever mentioned meeting James Watson has him immediately saying something incredibly racist, sexist, or antisemitic.
None of my college bio classes gave him any credit either, he was only ever mentioned as “This fucking asshole who stole Rosalind Franklin’s work”
“cancelled”
He found DNA, doesn’t mean he understands it.
This is how I feel about the creator trying to say it’s pronounced “jif”
And the original OP is mad that people are mad at the race scientist.
Also, lysenkoism is bullshit
Also, lysenkoism is bullshit
🙄 Why are we federated with lemmy.one again?
Yeah do not read those comments
