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"A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating."

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

@HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk replied · 4 weeks ago

Q: What did Watson and Crick discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin's notes.

@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social replied · 4 weeks ago

"With Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray images (which Watson surreptitiously studied), other scientists might have cracked the mystery.

Watson’s [made] his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25. His next act flopped."

We need to talk more of Rosalind Franklin.

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