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RE: what really concerns me
His "work" is largely as a figure head, I think. Remember, the man's in his eighties - he won the Nobel forty years ago, for work he did more than half a century ago.
He's made boneheaded comments before - back in 2000, he suggested there was a link between race and sex drive. Maybe it's just time for him to retire.
I do think there's been some very shoddy - not to mention sensationalist - reporting on the whole thing. He's tried several times to clarify what he meant, but nobody seems to care. It sells papers to rant about the evil geneticist and how he hates minorities. Not so much when the real story is that an old man doesn't choose his words very carefully.
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what really concerns me
isn't so much what he said or that his book tour was cancelled (that is understandable from a PR aspect) but rather he should have been suspended from his work. none of the articles i read on this lend to the belief that the Cold Spring Harbor Lab found any evidence that showed his "skewed" point of view in any way affected any of his work.
from a purely constitutional standpoint, i don't think it was fair for him to be suspended, unless they are currently conducting an investigation to see if his work was compromised. other than that, i don't think he should be suspended. anybody that has ever worked in any kind of office knows that you will eventually run into a co-worker who is close minded and often borderline racist. i find it hard pressed to show his comments are making for a hostile working environment. even if i did, i think 95% of HR rules are garbage anyway. but that is another issue.
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