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...very long after James Watson finished his Nobel Prize-winning work on the structure of DNA in 1953, he started firing off some eyebrow-raising comments about his fellow man: that fat people don't get hired because they lack ambition; how sunlight (and darker skin) is the source of the "Latin lover" libido; what he found distasteful in the appearance of his female research collaborator, Rosalind Franklin...
...there was a time about 10 years ago, writes Hunt-Grubbe in her piece, when she, then a lab assistant, found Watson distressed over a British newspaper headline: Abort babies with gay genes, says Nobel winner. Hunt-Grubbe asked Watson about that incident again when they met for their recent interview. "It was a hypothetical thing," Watson tells her. Someone had asked a question about aborting homosexual babies, and Watson believed mothers "should have the right" to decide when they have a baby. "I was just arguing for the freedom of women to try and have the children they want...
Just one day before Al Gore won his Nobel Prize, a British high court made an inconvenient ruling. Judge Michael Burton said An Inconvenient Truth could be shown in schools only if teachers added a disclaimer saying the film's facts are disputed. Burton found nine "significant errors," among them...
Last Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee rightly recognized the global significance of climate change when it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore ’69 and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-established committee of scientists conducting research on climate change. We hope the spotlight of the award will give activists the momentum they need to finally catalyze the world into actively combating climate change. While awareness of the critical issue of climate change has grown over the last several years, some in the United States and the world at large?...
...suggested that American administrators were destined to decimate the local, civilian population because they began in precisely this way, by rejecting the primacy of politics. Perhaps the best example of this genocidal impulse came not too much later in 1970, when the gap endemic to such a mindset enabled Nobel Peace laureate Henry Kissinger ‘50, relaying a command given by Richard Nixon, to order “a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves...