The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, James Watson 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”.
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