{"id":140650,"date":"2025-11-17T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140650"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:00:12","slug":"why-racist-biologist-james-watson-is-remembered-in-china-with-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140650","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018racist\u2019 biologist James Watson is remembered in China with respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Nobel laureate James Watson died at 97 in November, obituaries around the world painted a divided portrait: a scientific visionary who co-discovered the double helix of DNA \u2013 and a controversial figure long condemned for making racially charged statements about intelligence and genetics.<br \/>\nIn the West, the American molecular biologist\u2019s legacy was increasingly overshadowed by the fallout from those remarks, culminating in New York\u2019s Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory (CSHL) severing ties with him&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3332771\/why-racist-biologist-james-watson-remembered-china-respect?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Nobel laureate James Watson died at 97 in November, obituaries around the world painted a divided portrait: a scientific visionary who co-discovered the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}