(live-PR.com) - Science Museum in London has cancelled a talk schedule by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Dr James Watson to lecture on Friday who is in Britain to promote his new book "Avoid Boring People- Lessons From A Life In Science".

Doctor James Watson, won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1962 as one of three people who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine for his part in discovering the structure of DNA.

Science Museum, due to host Watson on a visit to Britain publicising his latest book, said this was unacceptable.

"We know that eminent scientists can sometimes say things that cause controversy and the Science Museum does not shy away from debating controversial topics," it said in a statement.

"However we feel that Dr Watson has gone beyond the point of acceptable debate and we are, as a result, cancelling his talk."

Tickets for the talk had been sold out.

Professor Steven Rose, a neurobiologist said Watson's comments were "old fashioned and have no scientific validity"."He's notorious over a long history of his life in shooting from the hip and making remarks which are racist, sexist, homophobic, profoundly offensive," he told BBC.