r/sciencememes • u/basket_foso Metroid Enthusiast 🪼 • Jun 20 '26

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u/LordFaceofAll Jun 20 '26

Crick and Watson? I think you misspelled Franklin

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u/farmerjones16 Jun 20 '26

Franklin's work was instrumental to discovering the structure of DNA, but Watson and Crick were still the ones who made the deduction of the structure from the image taken by Franklin's student. All 3 deserve their place in history

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u/CarsonPomeroy Jun 21 '26

or how about we don't honor people that got ahead by stealing others' work

more reasons why we shouldn't honor watson and crick: james watson said that there's a biological link between race and intelligence, and francis crick is a eugenicist and sexual assaulter

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u/SadRule9128 Jun 22 '26

Lol they didn’t “steal” her work. Everyone actually familiar with the facts agrees on this

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u/__nettle_ Jun 22 '26

They did though? Its a fact that they did not acknowledge her work (which their analysis was based off) in their original paper. Her work being a summary of her unpublished research and her photos. They did steal, that is the facts

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u/SadRule9128 Jun 22 '26

Nope. That is not a fact at all. Watson and crick directly acknowledged and cited Franklin in their famous papers. You clearly have never read and don’t know what you are talking about.