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he lists these quotes from Watson. i had no idea.
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James Watson in his own words
May 18, 2018 in academia | Tags: anti-semitism, James Watson, Jim Watson, misogyny, racism, sexism | by Lior Pachter
“Some anti-Semitism is justified”
“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them”
“Japan should be bombed for dragging its feet on supporting the Human Genome Project”
“All our social policies are based on the fact that [Africans] intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really”
“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective”
“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…It’s awful, just like it’s awful for schizophrenics”
“I’m not a racist in a conventional way”
“There is a biochemical link between exposure to sunlight and sexual urges.. that’s why you have Latin lovers”
“[The] historic curse of the Irish is not alcohol, it’s not stupidity.. it’s ignorance”
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think [doing so by genetic selection] would be great”
“By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities.. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black her, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.. Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA.. The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person’s lab”
“The one aspect of the Jewish brain that is not first class is that Jews are said to be bad in thinking in three dimensions.. it is true”
“Women are supposedly bad at three dimensions”
“[Rosalind Franklin] couldn’t think in three dimensions very well”
“[Rosalind Franklin] had Aspergers”
“People ask about [Rosalind Franklin] and I always say ‘autism’”
“[Francis Crick] may have been a bit autistic”
“I think now we’re in a terrible sitution where we should pay the rich people to have children.. if we don’t encourage procreation of wealthier citizens, IQ levels will most definitely fall.”
“Men are a bit strange and their strangest quality is their ability to understand mathematics”
“[Rosalind] Franklin couldn’t do maths”
“Indians in [my] experience [are] servile.. because of selection under the caste system”
“Women at Oxford and Cambridge are better than Harvard and Yale because they know their job is to look pretty and get a rich husband”
“People who have to deal with black employees find [that they are equal] not true”
“[As a female scientist] you won’t be taken seriously if you have children”
“You can imagine a scenario where you make the decision, you’re going to be a mother at 45. And then you get an autistic child. Should you blame yourself? I say, yes”
“East Asian students [tend] to be conformist, because of selection for conformity in ancient Chinese society”
“[Howard] Markel asked the 90-year-old Watson if, in a perfect world, and Franklin were alive in 1962, she didn’t deserve to have shared the Nobel Prize with him? “He slowly rose from his chair and, with one finger pointing directly at me pronounced from on high, ‘You don’t usually win the Nobel Prize for data you can’t interpret,'” Markel writes. Markel pushed Watson on the question, saying that Wilkins in 1953 couldn’t interpret the data either. Watson, chuckling, replied, “We wanted Maurice to get the Nobel, too, because we all liked him ….”
“[Linus Pauling] was probably always half-insane”
“Most men in bio are short because they can’t get women, but because you’re tall I know you’re genuinely interested in bio”
“Anyone who would hire an ecologist is out of his mind”
“[Rosalind Franklin] was a loser”
“The wider your face, the more likely you are [to be violent].. Senator Jim Webb has the broadest face I’ve ever seen on any man”
“We already accept that most couples don’t want a Down child. You would have to be crazy to say you wanted one, because that child has no future.”
“Disabled individuals are genetic losers”
“[I] hired smart scientists and pretty secretaries… [so that I] didn’t have to leave the lab to see beauty”
“[With IVF] all hell will break loose, politically and morally, all over the world”
“If we knew our son would develop schizophrenia, we wouldn’t have had him”
“My former colleagues are pinkos and shits”
“We should perform genome-wide association studies of women who have given up their children for adoption in order to find the ‘loveless gene’”
“[X University]- it used to be such a wonderful place. And then they started admitting women!”
“Catholics are more likely to forgive than Jews”
“If you could find the gene which determines sexuality and a woman decides she doesn’t want a homosexual child, well, let her”
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794841&forum_id=2most#49413995)