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RE: what really concerns me
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.
You know..you hit upon the very thing that troubles me about the media--sensationalism. I actually read his comment with a critical eye, and didn't come away thinking he was a racist, but rather (like so many others) he simply doesn't choose the right words to convey his meaning.
BTW Scott--did you know that the St. Bernard proves evolution? I'm certainly a convert now...(typed with HUGE sarcasm).
RE: what really concerns me
He's made boneheaded comments before - back in 2000, he suggested there was a link between race and sex drive.
That's exactly my point. He never suffered any major repercussions for saying things like this before, so why now? And just as scottb said, race makes no scientific sense.
I understand that he is old, but I would gather that he plays a bigger role than just a figure head. He has to be actively involved on a few projects. Only rockstars and movie stars get paid just to be somewhere. Scientists don't typically get paid just to sit in a room, especially for this length of a time frame.
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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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