65 years later, universities are scared to let him on a campus. Just as genetics departments are reaping the rewards for his achievement.
65 years ago on this day, Watson and Crick published this one-page paper about the structure of DNA. Nothing would ever be the same again. Except in many of the social sciences & humanities, which apparently didn't get the memo. #DNAdaypic.twitter.com/w6pMoF5Eq8
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They eventually got the memo, and
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And when I say 'they' I must also say that I myself am a social scientist and also tweet about vicious abstraction, so 'they' is limited to a select set of social scientists.https://twitter.com/MurphPsych/status/989137232706535424?s=19 …
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"It has not escaped our notice" they say, but it escaped the notice of many, and continues to do so.
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Very lucky they managed to publish in a high status journal, otherwise their careers would have gone nowhere.
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Ironic, though predictable, that disciplines which worship "the text" cannot accept texts the interpretations of which they don't control.
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what an elegant paper! 'it had not escaped our notice...'
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What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notes.....
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They do know Watson as a bigoted racist...
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