James Watson menaced by hoodies shouting 'racist!'
12:47 15 April 2011
Hayley Crawford
James Watson, infamously gloomy in 2007, may be feeling a bit down in the dumps again.
The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, 83, was menaced by protesters yesterday in Greece, while giving a lecture at Patras University. A group of 20 protesters shouting "Racist!" burst into the lecture theatre, and a young man - wearing a hood, naturally - approached Watson brandishing a flag.
Lecturers and students from the audience prevented the protestors from reaching Watson, who was not injured in the attack. The audience booed their exit.
Watson, in Greece to deliver a lecture entitled "Discovering the Double Helix of DNA", caused a worldwide furore in 2007 when he told British newspaper The Sunday Times that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really".
Greek universities have an "asylum" law which keeps the police off campus. This law, which was created to allow free speech, means that anyone within university grounds is immune from prosecution, even if they commit crimes such as attacking someone with intent to cause harm.
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Read more here/Leia mais aqui: New Scientist
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Vídeo do protesto contra o racismo de um biólogo darwinista
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NOTA DESTE BLOGGER:
Liberdade de expressão de quem? De James Watson? Dos estudantes gregos? Já pensou se a moda pegar por aqui contra alguns professores em muitas universidades que expõem ao ridículo aos alunos pelas suas subjetividades religiosas? Se estes neo-Torquemadas naturalistas podem ter liberdade de expressão em salas de ciências, por que os alunos ofendidos não podem reagir como esses estudantes gregos?
RESISTIR É EXISTIR! TENHAM CORAGEM DE PROTESTAR VEEMENTEMENTE CONTRA ESSES ATEUS E AGNÓSTICOS PRECONCEITUOSOS!
