James Watson has died at the great age of 97. Obituaries of the American scientist, who, with his late British collaborator Francis Crick, first proposed the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, after paying due tribute to his earth-shattering discovery, inevitably included the information that his later years were clouded by his ‘controversial’ views on race and intelligence.

The Nobel Prize-winning biologist was in fact one of the earliest victims of cancel culture in 2007, when, in an interview with the Times , he stated that he was ‘pessimistic’ about the future of sub-Saharan Africa because its inhabitants were genetically less intelligent than white Europeans.

Immediately, Watson was condemned to the outer darkness as an unreconstructed racist guilty of the greatest sin kn

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