Nobel winning DNA pioneer stripped of titles for insisting IQ depends on race and genes

Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : 
Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles by a leading American research institution, following his controversial conclusions linking race and intelligence, reports RT.com.James Watson, 99, who served half a century service to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, lost all of his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus, Oliver R. Grace Professor Emeritus and Honorary Trustee, for refusing to retract his own scientific conclusions. In 2007, Watson was suspended from all of his positions held at the New York lab after a scandal centering around his claim about the “inherently gloomy” future of the African continent. While having initially issued an apology for his comments, allowing him to maintain his honorary titles at the CSHL, when asked more than a decade later whether his views about race and intelligence have changed, he told the PBS documentary they haven’t.
CSHL found Watson’s newly voiced comments “reprehensible” and completely unsupported by science. After “unequivocally” rejecting Watson’s “unsubstantiated and reckless” opinions, the Laboratory stripped the 90-year-old scientist of all of his titles, noting that the institution “condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice.”