{"id":29028,"date":"2019-01-14T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29028"},"modified":"2019-01-14T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:23:09","slug":"dna-pioneer-stripped-of-honors-over-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29028","title":{"rendered":"DNA pioneer stripped of honors over racist comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A Nobel Prize-winning<strong> <\/strong>American scientist who co-discovered DNA has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">James Watson, who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s<strong> <\/strong>based on the work of British chemist<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/ps\/retrieve\/Narrative\/KR\/p-nid\/183\" target=\"_blank\"> Rosalind Franklin<\/a>, said in a PBS film that genes cause a difference in intelligence between white and black people in IQ tests.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 90-year-old&#8217;s comments were labeled &#8220;reprehensible&#8221; by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on New York&#8217;s Long Island, where Watson had been the director from 1968 to 1993.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A Nobel Prize-winning American scientist who co-discovered DNA has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary. James Watson, who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s based on the work of British chemist Rosalind Franklin, said in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}