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Dr Adam Rutherford
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While there is much to admire in @Dannythefink's article on race and conservatism - note I am not a conservative big or small C - I take issue with one
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Freedom of speech ≠ freedom from consequences. If I stood in the quad at UCL with a megaphone shouting that vaccines cause autism, would it be unjust if I was
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Oh we're still talking about statues are we? This is a vapid, superficial failure of an argument and it bugs me that an MP who read history at a top
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Spot on analysis by @NafeezAhmed on Toby Young et al's scientifically illiterate yet persistent disinformation campaign under the guise of 'lockdown sceptics' and specious free speech.It is striking that his
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This 45,000-year-old warty pig is now the earliest known art created by our species. https://bit.ly/3oDyxUZ This builds on the earlier stunning work by Adam Brumm, Maxime Aubert and their teams,
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Here’s the problem: we have bred a cadre of commentators who have no expertise. We made them. The Brendan O’Neills and Toby Youngs, Allison Pearsons, they don’t know how to
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Nostrafuckingdamus I see that Toby Young admitted that he got this wrong. We await with bated breath similar admissions for the other many many things he has asserted with little
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I see that there is a lot of chat about ancestry and indigeneity, two complex and profoundly misunderstood concepts. Here’s a thread 1/N - I have written about these ideas
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Oh heavens. Briefly, the D in PhD, DPhil, EdD (et al) stands for Doctor, this qualification is a doctorate. It comes from the Latin docere - to teach. 1/n It
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I'm seeing a lot of chat about PCR and COVID, some of it quite bonkers. So here’s a PCR 101. DNA is very small and therefore not easy to detect.
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‘History should not be sanitised’ say some historically illiterate Tory MPs. Churchill, a great leader as he certainly was, was also a rabid eugenicist who drafted the Mental Deficiency Act
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It is a very powerful phrase, but I did not create it. I borrowed and paraphrased it from @helenlewis whom I thought had coined it. But she denies coining it
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