A Nobel Prize winning scientist who helped discovered the DNA double helix is losing a number of honorary titles because of his views on race. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory says it is stripping former director, president and chancellor James Watson of his honors after comments he made in a new PBS documentary, American Masters: Decoding Watson. The 90-year-old Watson had already been fired from the lab in 2007 for claiming that black people are less intelligent, comments he retracted and apologized for. In the new film, Watson says his opinion on race and intelligence haven’t changed and that blacks on average are less intelligent than whites because of genetics. The laboratory says Watson’s remarks are reprehensible, unsupported by science and a reversal of his earlier apology.
