Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

"A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator." Source

A few encounters with James Watson

After the Nobel laureate James Watson died on November 6th, I solicited from Bluesky any stories that anyone had about run-ins with Watson. He had a decades-long career in biology, first in co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, then running the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York for decades. Here are a few anonymous stories:"If you would like to cite an anonymous source, my favorite Watson anecdote is that at my fi…