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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Something to keep in mind is that Franklin continued to do groundbreaking crystallography work throughout her too-short career, even after Watson and Crick used her data to build their structure. I honestly don't know how much she stressed about them.
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(Granted, she had a background level of rage-inducing stress b/c of how she was treated in general as a woman in a technical field in the 1950s, so there's that.)
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Yeah I'm gonna officially backtrack on this and say that "stress" in and of itself is not a cause of cancer even though acting like it is makes for a more dramatic work of fiction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jbwoodford815
It's either because she was an Ashkenazi woman with the BRCA1 gene running strongly in her family, or exposure to X-rays in the course of her lab work The latter maintains the cruel irony, of course, because Watson was completely safe thanks to never doing any lab work
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Well, people smoke more because of stress
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