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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by barry-cotter on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:22PM (#22051251)
You can’t be stripped of a Nobel prize.
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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by 0xADEADBEE on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:43PM (#22051352)
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...

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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by wdbbdw on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:11PM (#22051469)
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...

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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by tiles on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:14AM (#22052105)
Rather than public crucifixion, it looks like James Watson actually did quite well for himself?
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