The man who figured out what DNA actually looks like got WIPED from history for saying one thing out loud..
In 1953 James Watson discovered the double helix, the twisted ladder shape of DNA, basically cracking the code for how every living thing on Earth is built. He also won a Nobel Prize for it.
In 2007 he told a London paper that IQ testing shows gaps between races and that genes play a role, and the results? His book tour got canceled within days, and the lab he ran for almost 40 YEARS kicked him out as chancellor. He was so blacklisted he ended up selling his Nobel medal in 2014, saying he'd become an "unperson."
Then in 2019, at 90 years old, PBS asked him if he'd changed his mind. He said "No, not at all." The lab then stripped every title he had left.
The test score gap he talked about is real and documented, but the "trust the science" crowd would rather destroy a man than debate why it exists.
The greatest scientist of his generation essentially CANCELED for speaking his mind.