{"id":1188,"date":"2007-09-18T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/avoid-boring-people\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T09:44:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T07:44:40","slug":"avoid-boring-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/09\/avoid-boring-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid boring people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been amused by the fact being listed at the HUGO meetings immediately after a Nobel winner as WJ&#8211;ST follows WA&#8211;TSON. Not so amused by his many ignorant,<!--more--> egocentric and biologistic statements I found now his autobiography sketch &#8220;Avoid boring people&#8221;. If you have to earn your money with science it&#8217;s a quite provocative and arrogant title (and even impossible to avoid boring people) although there might be some truth in it &#8211; an excerpt can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.02138mag.com\/magazine\/article\/1488.html\">online<\/a>. Other bloggers write about scientific gossip (http:\/\/bayblab.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/avoid-boring-people.html) or find at least some of the advices obsolete (<a href=\"http:\/\/mattdowling.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/new-book-james-watsons-avoid-boring.html\">Ontogeny<\/a>) which is in contrast to formal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/knopf\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375412844\">reviews<\/a>, yea, yea.<\/p>\n<h3>Addendum<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brackenworld.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/dr-watson-racist.html\">Watson&#8217;s racist comments<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been amused by the fact being listed at the HUGO meetings immediately after a Nobel winner as WJ&#8211;ST follows WA&#8211;TSON. Not so amused by his many ignorant, &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}