Why James Watson Is Super Problematic

James Watson is very famous for discovering the double helix structure of DNA, and every budding biologist knows his name. What they may not know is that he has twisted genetics to make unscientific, offensive, homophobic, racist, and misogynistic statements.

Here are some of the worst statements pulled from this Smithsonian Magazine article : Here is an opinion piece written by a black scientist who is an "academic descendant" of Watson with some great insight into this issue.
 * He told former protégé Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe 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.”
 * He attributed purported variations in “the average between blacks and whites on I.Q. tests” to genetics
 * He described Rosalind Franklin in his book as “not unattractive,” but failing to take “even a mild interest in clothes” and the accentuation of her “feminine qualities.”