{"id":8395,"date":"2025-11-15T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/james-watson-legacy-nancy-hopkins-interview\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:02:21","slug":"james-watson-legacy-nancy-hopkins-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/james-watson-legacy-nancy-hopkins-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: A close friend grapples with James Watson\u2019s complicated legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: A close friend grapples with James Watson\u2019s complicated legacy
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Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d interview with Nancy Hopkins. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0<\/em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Spotify<\/em><\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up for the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d newsletter<\/a>. And don\u2019t forget to sign up for the\u00a0<\/em>First Opinion newsletter<\/em><\/a>, delivered every Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Torie Bosch: <\/strong>James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA, died last week at the age of 97<\/a>. He was a scientific giant and a very controversial figure. In the final two decades of his life, he falsely stated that women and Black people are, as populations, not as smart as white men.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: A close friend grapples with James Watson\u2019s complicated legacy Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d interview with Nancy Hopkins. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,3951,2660,2219],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-first-opinion-podcast","category-genetics","category-scientists","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}