(Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group) The co-workers, Jan Witkowski, director of the lab's Banbury conference center, and Alex Gann, editorial director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, share Watson's sense of humor,
his appetite for gossip, and most of his research interests, so the restaurant conversation shifted from the sex lives of various scientists, to debates over the relevance of left - handed DNA, and back to the legacy of the double helix.
And to what extent on the other hand is this another piece of juicy
gossip ripe
for the
appetites of any predatorial sadistic sense of pleasure
for a reader or listener that comes hand in had with «sex sells».