On: 'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?

[barry-cotter]

You can’t be stripped of a Nobel prize.

[0xADEADBEE → barry-cotter]

Looks like he sold his medal [0] to ameliorate his loss of earnings; perhaps that's to what GP was referring.

[0] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Wats...

[wdbbdw → 0xADEADBEE]

He never actually sold it [0]; a billionaire just paid him some cash instead and Watson got to keep his prize.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/09/russian-bill...

[tiles → wdbbdw]

Rather than public crucifixion, it looks like James Watson actually did quite well for himself?