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Nature Medicine 7, 137 (2001)
doi:10.1038/84547
Watson's 'sun and sex' lecture upsets audience
Phyllida Brown1
- Exeter
Nobel Laureate James Watson was keeping quiet last month after reportedly claiming in a lecture that dark-skinned people have a stronger libido than fair-skinned people and that fat people are unambitious.The 72- year-old who, along with Francis Crick, is credited with working out the structure of DNA, provoked outrage among his audience at the University of California, Berkeley, to whom he also suggested that thin women are unhappy and showed pictures of model Kate Moss to illustrate his point.
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