Racial Comments From A Nobel Prize Winner

James D. Watson is a revered scientist who's accomplishments include winning the Nobel Prize. He won the Nobel prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA. Later he went on to become a member of the Cols Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1968 and was president of this from 1994 to 2003. He also headed the American government's part in the International Genome Project.

Watson now has a lot more free time on his hands. Since making a statement that overall people of African descent are less intelligent than those of European descent his schedule has drastically cleared up. He has (as he has hinted) been forced to retire at age 79 from the laboratory though the president of the laboratory says Watson chose to leave. He will be permitted to keep and office at the laboratory and live in a house on the laboratory land. Also many speeches and lectured he had scheduled have chosen to cancel, a few of which including Rockefeller University and the Science Museum in London who had sold out for the speech.

Watson later made a statement apologizing since there are no facts to prove the statement that he made. This statement is being viewed as racist and has stirred up unrest in the scientific community, that a Nobel Prize Winner would make a racist comment not supported by facts.