me in high school when i found out rosalind franklin was robbed
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Replying to @lab_shenanigans
My biochem professor met Watson and all he did was stare at her breasts.
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Replying to @booo_rad @lab_shenanigans
In his own memoir Watson says the first time he met Franklin he attended a lecture by her and missed everything she was saying because he kept trying to picture how much hotter she'd be with better makeup and hair
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lab_shenanigans
ARE YOU KIDDING ME. IM ANNOYED MORE
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Replying to @booo_rad @lab_shenanigans
Yeah and this was Crick literally sending him to spy on her and Wilkins and gather intel but he fucked it up because he just cannot pay attention to women's words when they talk So when he and Crick tried to make a model based on Watson and Wilkins' work it was critically flawed
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Watson and Crick became huge laughingstocks at their lab and were almost fired and sternly warned not to ignorantly try to steal other people's work again But they weren't actually fired, and did ignorantly try to steal other people's work again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lab_shenanigans
I’m not gonna say white privilege but.
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Replying to @booo_rad @lab_shenanigans
White male privilege Even after this incident Wilkins, Watson's partner, was still all buddy buddy with Watson and Crick even though they were technically his competitors Because they were men and he felt he could relate to them and he couldn't stand working with a woman
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Watson and Crick got the Nobel Prize because Wilkins was having casual drinks with Watson (a known weird creep) and just fucking had some of Watson's photos from the lab and showed him one of the DNA double helix all "Hey what do you make of this man"
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And Watson vividly describes in his memoir being all poker faced like "I dunno" while memorizing all the details and then scrambling to write it down on a napkin as soon as he got on the train
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lab_shenanigans
So that’s why his awards have been removed. Gotcha
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Replying to @booo_rad @lab_shenanigans
Oh no that's not why I mean he admitted this story himself in the book he wrote about it 50 years ago, that's how we know about it He brags about it - "Science is like digging for buried treasure, you don't get any reward for digging the most holes, only for finding the chest"
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