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Originally shared by Kee Hinckley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Amy Harmon on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u275d 1. In NYT\u2019s Race\/Related newsletter this week, I quote neuroscientist @NathanASmith1. He wondered how many scientists privately share Nobelist Jim Watson\u2019s view that blacks are less intelligent than whites. I didn\u2019t have space for the full story behind his quote. But here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Shared with @NathanASmith1\u2019s permission: \u201cI will never forget something that happened to me during my first postdoc\u2026 [MORE]<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. \u201cI remember emailing a really big guy in the field of neuroscience to discuss an issue I noticed in his transgenic mice. He didn\u2019t know what I looked like but over the phone he thought I was white. So we finally met up at a Gordon Conference MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. “and he was shocked that I was black. He said \u2018I thought you were white.\u2019 He kept repeating it and the other PIs in the vicinity of the conversation walked off. MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. \u201cI pulled him to the side and informed him everything he was saying was offensive but he was just so flabbergasted that I was not white that I doubt what I was saying was registering. MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. \u201cHe said \u2018this is impossible. Were you adopted, what do your parents do for work? The African American who worked for me does not talk like you.\u2019 MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. \u201cThis is why I strongly believe we need to address this issue. For Watson to say that it was ok for him to say this in private just makes me think back to my experience and how internal biases will hinder the diversification of science. MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. \u201cOnce that guy saw that I was black he then assumed I was completely wrong about his mice.\u2019\u2019 MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Dr. Smith\u2019s personal story, which I\u2019m grateful to him for allowing me to share, relates to a lot of the convos I\u2019m seeing\/ hearing about my Watson reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n James Watson Had a Chance to Salvage His Reputation on Race. He Made Things Worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he\u2019s right, a new documentary finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/01\/science\/watson-dna-genetics-race.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. When my story ran, a number of scientists said I shouldn’t have reported on Watson resurfacing the views for which he\u2019d once apologized. Hard to wrap my head around that but, paraphrasing: \u201cscientists already know this & the public doesn\u2019t need to.\u2019’<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/leonidkruglyak\/status\/1080187440780865536<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Many also dismissed the idea raised in my story that, had biomedical research managed to train and hire more black scientists over the last half-century, Watson\u2019s views on intelligence would have been tempered by what was in front of his own eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. But here\u2019s a stat from my story deserving more attention: only 1.5% of @nih grant applicants are black. These grants are the main source of biomedical research funding -it’s only because so few occupy positions where they CAN apply that the # is so low diversity.nih.gov\/building-evide<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. And here\u2019s a stat from the General Social Survey that continues to shock me: 23% of whites in America think whites are more intelligent than blacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Survey says 23% of Whites think Whites are more intelligent than Blacks<\/p>\n\n\n\n The assessment that Whites are more intelligent than Blacks is more common among male, older, less formally educated, and conservative Whites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n