Nope.
The worst racists are actually the educated ones.
Like that professor who always uses his theories to explain why black people are inferior. Or those professors who spend every year making studies to fit racist hypothesis.
Some of my professors at university were worst than your round the way hill billy racist.
You're talking about either Watson or Crick.
Either way, he's discredited BECAUSE what he's saying is false, not because hes a professor.
Thats the fallacy of an argument from authority.