/sci/ - Science & Math

The biggest scientific weakness of the left is when it comes to matters of human nature. A large segment of them are in complete denial about the biological influence on behavior, especially when it comes to individual and group differences. Sagan was guilty of this to an extent too. This is a major issue, especially considering that this form of anti-scientific denialism still has a great deal of influence amongst our elite institutions, unlike superstitions like creationism which are thankfully widely ridiculed amongst the elites.

http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
>The public intellectual forum is being manipulated with intimidation and coercion and you are being lied to. The media is not doing its job, and the scientific community is not playing its proper public role as a beacon of dispassionate truth seeking, as a conduit of knowledge to the public, or in fostering an open and fair intellectual climate. Both are abusing their power and authority to do the opposite of their honor bound social and intellectual roles; facts are being distorted in service of values.

>This post is a very long and detailed examination of what James Watson said, what the data reveal about James Watson's claims (i.e. are they, or are they not factually accurate), and what the media and scientists told the public about what the data reveal about James Watson's claims.

Hooded individuals interrupt James Watson lecture in Patras
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=9821258&service=142
> A hooded individual apparently tried to hit Nobel laureate James Watson during a lecture he gave at a University of Patras auditorium on Thursday.

> Luckily, two other professors blocked the hooded assailant from getting near Watson. The suspect had entered the lecture hall along with another small group of hooded individuals, all of whom fled the scene within minutes.

> The octogenarian Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, was unhurt.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B2VaX_jOT8

Background information of why Watson was in Greece:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=9812099&maindocimg=9812122&service=96&sh
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> One of the men credited with unlocking the secrets of the now-familiar 'double helix' structure of DNA, Prof. James Watson, is due to be the central speaker at the 12th Conference of Medical Chemistry organised by Patras University that begins on Monday and runs until April 15.

> Watson is due to deliver a lecture on "Discovering the Double Helix of DNA" on April 14, while on the previous day there will be an event in his honour held by the university and the mayor of the port city of Patras in the west Peloponnese.

> On April 15, Watson will be a guest of the 'Democritus' research centre in Athens, where he will speak on the topic of DNA and the potential for using human genome mapping to cure cancer.

This is the scientist who discovered that there are genetic differences between the races. Sounds like his attackers were antifa.