> At a certain point, I looked up and said, “Dick, [James Watson] must be either very smart or very lucky.
He ignores the third option: very dishonest. Which is what applied in this case.
He ignores the third option: very dishonest. Which is what applied in this case.
In his own book, Watson admitted he had seen her work before publishing his result.
Crick also wrote some scathing letters to Watson about how he was being disingenuous in this particular book [0].
My fellow biology grad students when I was in grad school starting in 2005 pretty universally regarded Watson as a waste of oxygen.
On forgotten people what about Raymond Gosling (Franklin's PhD student) who took the famous photo:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51
Watson was shown Gosling's photo by Gosling new supervisor after transferring from under Franklin's supervision.
Referencing your fellow students' ideology driven groupthink doesn't qualify as such.