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I imagine the view there is "well, bio is full of women because the ladies, bless their little fluffy heads, aren't smart enough for real science like chemistry and physics, so a short guy will have a better chance there" mixed in with some "and since men are smarter than women, a guy in bio will hit the top of the profession, tenure, prizes, etc. faster and easier than competing against men in other disciplines".
Because fat people are stupid. If they were smart, they would not be fat. It is easy not to be fat, so if you are fat, it is because you are too stupid, lazy and greedy not to be fat. Everyone knows this!
Leaving sarcasm aside, I agree that fat = stupid is a stupidly reductive frame (with caveats for the smallish correlations with conscientiousness, IQ, SES etc).
That being said, it's 2025, for most people, relief from obesity is a prescription away. Free passes handed out if, after trial, GLP drugs don't work for them, but anyone wanting to lose weight and in possession of even modest means owes it themselves to try.
(This wasn't true back when the quote was presumably made, different times, less cooking under the warm sun of man-made wonders within my comprehension)
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I assume this is a joke, because if not then something has been making us real stupid since the 1970s.
As a fat person myself, I've had the "it's easy to be thin" and "fatness is a moral failing" lines quoted at me, so part a joke, part the weariness of being judged as Watson allegedly judged fat interviewees.
Being fat is most certainly a moral failing. Fat people lack taste. I cannot comprehend how one would be able to find good, high-quality food in the quantities required to become fat. Most food is simply not good enough to get fat over. No one has ever gotten fat eating at Michelin-star restaurants.
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