New York's leading scientific laboratories cut its links to the world that helped detect DNA and withdrew all its titles and awards.
The Cold Spring Harbor Labs claimed that Nobel Prize-winning scientist and geneticist James Watson, 90, made statements about the link between race and intelligence, with racial connotations.
In a statement, laboratory chief Bruce Stellman and board member Marilyn Siemens said "the laboratories categorically reject the untrusted, proven and imprecise personal views of Dr. James Watson on the subject of race and genetics."
They said Watson's comments "deserve condemnation, are not scientifically supported and in no way represent the views of laboratories, their trustees, faculty, staff or students."
The statement stressed the condemnation of laboratories for the recipe for "misuse of science to justify prejudice and discrimination," according to the British newspaper The Guardian.
Watson has been head of laboratories for years, and Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin won the Nobel Prize in Biology for discovering the combination of double helical DNA in 1953.
In 2007, the famous labs nominated him as Chancellor after telling the Sunday Times that he was "already skeptical about prospects for Africa" because "all of our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is like ours, whereas all the tests say the opposite is true ", According to him.
He also said that while he hoped races would be equal, "people who deal with black-skinned employees find this to be wrong."
At that time, Watson apologized for his remarks, but after the recent broadcast of the documentary, he found that he had not changed his views. He said, "I have not changed them at all."
He added that he wanted very much to change those views and to have a new knowledge tool that says, "Your education and growth are much more important than your nature. But I have not seen any such cognitive means. There is a difference in the average between the intelligence level of blacks and whites. The difference is in genes. "
After withdrawing all honorary titles and honorary awards from Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Labs said it appreciated his scientific legacy, achievements and discoveries, but could not continue to be associated with him and with him.
