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2019-01-14 Science & Technology

Yikes! Scientist James Watson loses titles after genetic claims over race

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Alex, I'll stick with "People raped in a nursing home" for $600.

Posted by Otto Whamp2801 2019-01-14 02:20|| 2019-01-14 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 So, all those CSI shows are a bunch of bunk because the 'DNA' can't show the race of the accused or deceased? /sarc

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-14 08:33|| 2019-01-14 08:33|| Front Page Top

Thoroughbreds are little more than zoological quackery. Given the opportunity, any horse could have done what Secretariat did.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-14 08:41|| 2019-01-14 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 So, all those CSI shows are a bunch of bunk because the 'DNA' can't show the race of the accused or deceased?

The evil twin might have done it. Dr. Bass (Dr. Bones) of "Body Farm" fame ran into a $hitstorm when he suggested that certain bone characteristics indicated race. However, this was not carried to extremes as with Dr. Watson. Can't deny the man's accomplishments although that is what is happening. A pox on PC.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-14 09:46|| 2019-01-14 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Besoeker, that is funny. However, you must have never read "The $80 Champion" by Elizabeth Letts. Let's hear it for dark horses!

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-14 09:52|| 2019-01-14 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 FWIW: Joseph Stalin's attacks on genetics, psychology, astronomy, and quantum physics are well documented.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-14 11:00|| 2019-01-14 11:00|| Front Page Top

#7 His son is named Rufus?

Posted by Beavis 2019-01-14 13:22|| 2019-01-14 13:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I await the return of Lysenkoism, after all it's pretty there wit AGW faith support.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-14 13:24|| 2019-01-14 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 JohnQC, on the tv show Bones they routinely tell the race and sex by different bones. Not with 100% certainty but close enough to be meaningful.

The show is based on the real life work of a doctor who did the same thing and wrote a book about it. Who knows how far they stretch from reality as the show continues, hollywood is hollywood after all but still.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-14 15:34|| 2019-01-14 15:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Honorary Degrees show the vanity of the institution bestowing -- if they had a Monetary Gift attached they might mean something. "So what?" if they issue one, double "So What?" if they turn around and take it back.

The university town I live in had two stones featured prominently at the off ramp from the interstate showing that they were a "sister city" to a city in Mexico and a city in France. Some time during the War on Terror those stones quietly disappeared... Never heard the 'Why?' just saw that they had quietly disappeared. Fellowship seems easily lost.

Posted by magpie 2019-01-14 18:21|| 2019-01-14 18:21|| Front Page Top

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