Cenk Uygur
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Nobel Prize Winner Is Broke Because He's An Asshole
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December 2, 2014
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4:07Now Playing"James Watson, the biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contribution to the discovery of DNA’s structure, will become the first recipient to sell the medal in his or her lifetime, the Financial Times reports.
The Nobel laureate said that he had no choice but to sell the medal — which auction house Christie’s believes could fetch as much as $3.5 million — because of financial pressures stemming from comments he made about race and intelligence in 2007.
In a 2007 interview with the Sunday Times, Watson claimed that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.
Moreover, while he admitted that everyone wants to believe that all races are born with equal intelligence, anyone “who [has] to deal with black employees [finds] this not true.””
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