When I was in that play about Watson and Crick vs Rosalind Franklin someone asked me about how Franklin died young of breast cancer - long before her work was vindicated - and Watson lived well into his 90s And I was just like "You don't have stress if you don't care"https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1291447281758208005 …
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Like Jon Stewart's bit about George Bush's laugh, it's not even the maniacal supervillain laugh, it's the snotty chuckle of the two-bit crook in a movie "Heh heh heh... Sucks to be you I guess, sksksksk"
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That's why Watson is notorious, after he became a Nobel Prize winner he just started saying whatever he wanted to everyone all the time because he'd already won so who cares "What do you remember most about working alongside Franklin?" "Her breasts"
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My favorite quote from him - I swear this is a 100% direct quote - is "The worst thing about interviewing a fat person for a job is you already know you're not going to hire them but you still have to go through the whole interview" (He BROUGHT THIS UP, UNPROMPTED)
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At the university I went to, the president of it admitted, in a breakfast with students, that he stole research from other people at <prestigious location>, but it was ok. Because everyone there was stealing research from everyone else.
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Yeah his memoir was a very tell-all "This is how the sausage gets made" tabloid kind of thing about the drama and pettiness of rl scientists
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