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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That was his characterization in the play that I think was somewhat borne out irl This man who is just utterly without shame He's convinced enough of his own intelligence he feels he has nothing to prove and is fine with the world knowing he's a shitheel
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I mean *he admitted* the story of ripping off Franklin and Wilkins' work *in his own memoir* He tells it like a funny story, "Aren't I a little rascal"
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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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