dr_analog
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He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth but the rest of the scientific community wasn't obligated to let this guy who fits right in with shitposting Twitter edgelords represent them.
Charles Murray's dignity he does not have.
And in the end Watson was the one crying like a bitch that his reputation was ruined.
Our society should have great men and and if they want to be recognized as great men they should behave more on the Bertrand Russell or Richard Feynman end of the scale than the Andrew Tate or Dan Bilzerian end.
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth because his less-talented successors found him embarrassing or something.
Okay what about Crick, the person he won the Nobel with, who had a much more accomplished career? He also found him embarrassing. They're not all scrubs complaining that the big swinging dick brought the truth too hard and it hurt their feelings.
dr_analog
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3hr ago
naughty things my family and I have said in the last week
Do you not see the difference between you and your family engaging in bar talk in relative privacy and The Most Decorated Science Man saying this during interviews with the press?
He is not saying this stuff in the comfort of his home with his friends and being secretly recorded and outed. He has said much of it in interviews with journalists.
It is beneath the dignity of the academy for its members to use that opportunity to crack racist (and sexist) jokes, Especially if one is a world famous geneticist.
dr_analog
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19hr ago
I'm not the OP, but I believe as an ubermensch who was a leading authority on genetics he had a moral responsibility to not casually sling such inflammatory shit that would carry the weight of genetic condemnation. He had a right to his shitposting, but the world is correct to complain that this shitposting is undignified.
In this house we believe in holding intellectuals accountable for both going full retard on wokeness and for bigoted JAQing off.
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