{"id":1063,"date":"2007-10-18T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2007-10-18T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T13:45:21","slug":"whooo-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/10\/18\/whooo-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooo boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you dig science, you know who James Watson is.  You may also know him if you dig nooses and burning crosses.  See, James is straight-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/10\/18\/watson_race_row\/\">racist<\/a>.  And to cover his bases, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_D._Watson#Use_of_King.27s_College_results\">he&#8217;s sexist<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting (to me, at least) about James is that he&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s most celebrated scientists.  To understand his prejudices is to understand that even a great scientific mind is a human mind, vulnerable to the same petty, base, hurtful failings we all have.  Even my fascination with his extreme views is a product of a bias, I suppose.  Shouldn&#8217;t men and women of great ideas somehow rise above all this?  Find me the cancer gene, James; I know you have a book coming out, but don&#8217;t pull a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_coulter\">Coulter <\/a>here just to boost sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you dig science, you know who James Watson is. You may also know him if you dig nooses and burning crosses. See, James is straight-up racist. And to cover his bases, he&#8217;s sexist, too. What&#8217;s interesting (to me, at least) about James is that he&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s most celebrated scientists. To understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-h9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}