Sure, we have generic SJW threads, but this one is about a Nobel Peace Prize winner being pressured Galileo-style to recant his views. Just as back then, saying "nope" can lead to serious repercussions.
Think about that.Nobel Prize-Winning DNA Pioneer Stripped Of Titles For Insisting IQ Depends On Race And Genes
Ninety-year-old Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles by a leading American research institution, after doubling down on his controversial conclusions linking race and intelligence.
Despite nearly half a century service to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Watson, a world-renowned geneticist, lost all of his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus, Oliver R. Grace Professor Emeritus and Honorary Trustee, for refusing to retract his own scientific conclusions.
In 2007, Watson was suspended from all of his positions held at the New York lab following a scandal centering around his claim about the “inherently gloomy” future of the African continent. “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really,” he told the Times newspaper at the time.
While having initially issued an apology for his comments, allowing him to maintain his honorary titles at the CSHL, when asked more than a decade later whether his views about race and intelligence have changed, he told the PBS documentary they haven’t.
“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,” the scientist was quoted as saying in a recently previewed PBS documentary, titled American Masters: Decoding Watson. “There’s a difference on the average between blacks and whites on IQ tests. I would say the difference is, it’s genetic.”
CSHL found Watson’s newly voiced comments “reprehensible” and completely unsupported by science. After “unequivocally” rejecting Watson’s “unsubstantiated and reckless” opinions, the Laboratory stripped the 90-year-old scientist of all of his titles, noting that the institution “condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice.”
.... https://www.eurasiareview.com/14012019- ... and-genes/
CSHL stripped this nobel-prize researcher of all titles *not* because he lied, *not* because he harmed anyone, *not* because his methodologies are reckless . . . but because they feel that "science" used to justify "prejudice" is condemnable. Who defines science and prejudice? They do, apparently.
Notice all the "science" regularly bantered about to prejudice people against "God botherers" and "Idiots who believe in the supernatural" is fine. That kind of bigotry represents a completely legitimate use of science. Genetics and their correlation to IQ - that's condemnable science. Verboten.
Absurd.
