China News

93 readers

7 users here now

A community for china news

founded 4 months ago

MODERATORS

rss@news.abolish.capital

Salamence@lemmy.zip

RedWizard@news.abolish.capital

Why ‘racist’ biologist James Watson is remembered in China with respect (www.scmp.com)

submitted 3 months ago by rss@news.abolish.capital to c/china@news.abolish.capital

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

When Nobel laureate James Watson died at 97 in November, obituaries around the world painted a divided portrait: a scientific visionary who co-discovered the double helix of DNA – and a controversial figure long condemned for making racially charged statements about intelligence and genetics. In the West, the American molecular biologist’s legacy was increasingly overshadowed by the fallout from those remarks, culminating in New York’s Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory (CSHL) severing ties with him...

From China - South China Morning Post via This RSS Feed.

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here