Word: inferiority
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...really gets done.J. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10RR: Who do you play in “Manuscript”?JC: I play Chris.RR: Is he the Harvard or Yale guy?JC: He’s a Yalie.RR: How does it feel to be portraying someone so obviously inferior to yourself?JC: Well, I find it challenging. I unfortunately didn’t go to Harvard-Yale to do character research, which would have been helpful, but I’ve basically been observing my most stupid friends to try to get into character.RR: So tell me a little...
Since discovering the double-helix shape of DNA in 1953, Nobel Laureate James Watson has been a fixture in the news—far too often for his controversial views. Just last month, Watson expressed his belief that black people might have genetically inferior intelligence. In the ensuing uproar, Watson stepped down from his 40-year post as chancellor of the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory and cancelled the tour for his newly-released book, “Avoid Boring People.” So do the new 368 pages of prose contain any of Watson’s controversial bombs...
It’s been a bad week for James D. Watson. After comments made by the renowned biologist implying that blacks might be genetically inferior to whites surfaced in the Times of London, Watson has faced a public uproar, comparisons to segregationist leaders, and dismissal from prominent scientific positions. There is talk of Watson losing his position as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory—an institution he helped shape, ironically enough, from a relic of the eugenics movement to the cutting-edge research institution that is today—and many have suggested that his scientific...
...pornography and sexual exploitation go hand in hand. She added that the vast majority of women in pornography are poor and have been previously sexually abused. MacKinnon said that an undercurrent of subordination runs through most pornography. “Through pornography, women are constructed as members of an inferior, sex-based caste,” she said, causing users of pornography, both male and female, to become desensitized to coerced sex. But audience member Cameron Leader-Picone, who is a fifth-year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said he found MacKinnon’s condemnation...
...seems more shocked by the statements than James Watson himself. "To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly," Watson said in a statement he issued at the Royal Society Thursday. "That is not what I meant. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief...