ROFL! Damned black kettle! Shockley shocking! I wonder if Watson knows that, using the same criteria, he would learn that his preferred race would be found lacking when compared to the Asian persuasian?
It was actually Crick and the notorious rye fungus which gave us the spiral staircase. After his chemical epiphany he is alleged to have said, "Watson, come here, I need you." :-) Terry What hath G-d wrought? On Dec 12, 2007 11:37 PM, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah -- the coming age of the "molecular full Monty" and ingraining of > illogic into modern society... This goes far beyond quirky humor. > > James D. Watson, the discoverer of of DNA and winner of the Nobel prize, > is one of several notable, but now disgraced, scientists who have fallen > from favor after opining that black Africans are not as intelligent as > whites. > > That kind of opinion is often based on misapplication of statistics, and > the illogic of applying the general to the specific, the so-called > "Dicto Simpliciter" fallacy. Underlying any such racist opinion, > however, is the more basic question - what constitutes a "black" American? > > In one of the stranger cases of poetic justice in recent memory, > Watson's own DNA seems to reverse the legal situation to such an extent > that Watson himself would have been technically considered to be > "officially negroid" under the antiquated laws (1/16) of many Southern > States in the USA, until the modern era. > > This ironic and hidden role-reversal, is reminiscent of Adolph Hitler's > (rumored) Jewish ancestry, which is more doubtful than Watson's > undeniable but formerly hidden "ethnicity". There is absolutely no > doubt, however, that Hitler's real name "should have been" > Schicklgruber. You can take it from there as to whether any > Schicklgruber could ever have generated the mass appeal, and pulled-off > the same kind of political results, in a once-racist society which was > leaning heavily towards Aryan supremacy anyway. Numen est nomen - Heil > Schicklgruber ! > > http://history1900s.about.com/od/hitleradolf/a/hitlerancestry.htm > > A new analysis of Dr. Watson's genome shows that he has 16 times the > number of genes considered to be of African origin, almost exactly the > same amount of African DNA which would turns up when one > great-grandparent is of African origin. This is according to Kari > Stefansson, the chief executive of deCODE Genetics of Iceland, which did > the analysis. > > "This came up as a bit of a surprise," Dr. Stefansson said in an > interview, "especially as a sequel to his utterly inappropriate comments > about Africans." > > "The irony is bigger, and broader, than his having made derogatory > comments and having an ancestral relationship with the folks he > insulted," said Kathy Hudson, the founder and director of the Genetics > and Public Policy Center in Washington. As people see what happens to > Dr. Watson and others as they undergo what she called the "molecular > Full Monty," the inevitable surprises might "help people make the > decision about whether they want their information for themselves, and > to ask, Who will I share this with?" > > It may turn out in the near future, when genetics can expose more detail > than we ever thought or desired - that the whimsical notion and > ingrained illogic of "don't ask, don't tell" becomes a rock-solid > doctrine of US jurisprudence, going all the way to the Doctor's office... > > Jones > >
