Genius Under House Arrest

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The Cancelation of James Watson

Edward Dutton

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Academica Press
30 September 2025

Social discrimination; Sociology; Political control & freedoms

In 2007, the Watson Affair – the worldwide character assassination and exclusion from public life of Dr. James Watson, the brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist co-credited with the discovery of DNA – shocked the global public in an early episode of what would come to be called ""cancel culture."" Watson was as an early and very public victim of incipient wokeism: a warning to others who might be tempted to dissent from favored ideologies of expression and behavior. With the Watson Affair, Western society had changed to the point of inversion; from being broadly supportive of genius, and providing protected niches for those of great accomplishment, to exactly the opposite – a censorious surveillance culture where even minor missteps could result in personal and professional ruin. Genius Under House Arrest explores how this dramatic shift occurred and argues that not only was every ""controversial"" remark of Watson's empirically accurate, but that geniuses – with Watson as the example – are a package deal: extreme creative ability as a consequence of sometimes difficult personalities, with effects ranging across social, ideological, and professional life. As society has begun to realize, nothing less than the West's culture of merit and achievement is at stake.

By: Edward Dutton
Imprint: Academica Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781680535839
ISBN 10: 1680535838
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edward Dutton is Honorary Professor of Evolutionary Psychology of Business at Asbiro University, in ?ód?, Poland, Honorary Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Research Associate in the Deanship of Scientific Research at Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia.

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Genius Under House Arrest

The Cancelation of James Watson

Edward Dutton

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