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    As Twitter explodes, Eric Lander apologizes for toasting James Watson

    "People who have called this out are correct. I was wrong to toast, and I’m sorry," Eric Lander said.
    by Sharon Begley May 14, 2018 3 minutes
    Eric Lander in 2016

    Prominent geneticist Eric Lander apologized on Monday for toasting James Watson, the co-discoverer of the double helix who in his later years has become known for racist and misogynist views. Social media tore into the director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard after his remarks on Watson’s 90th birthday.

    “I was asked to toast James Watson last week … for his role in the Human Genome Project, on the occasion of his 90th birthday,”

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