Back off man, I'm a scientist. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Professor of Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement
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And now we get to see the great whitewashing of Cofnas. As someone who strongly believes that Cofnas should keep his postdoc position, I agree that it's worth revisiting what he's actually argued. Let's take a look ... 1/
With Nathan Cofnas back in the news—and being labelled a far-right "race scientist"—it's worth revisiting what he's actually argued. Back in 2018, he and Jonathan Anomaly wrote a careful takedown of the alt-right's favourite anti-Semitic text, Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique, exposing its distortions and offering a far simpler explanation for Jewish intellectual prominence.
quillette.com/2018/03/15/alt…
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Dr Dawkins appears to be asking if we should resurrect a dead person here.
Also: this is the plot of Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks.
Neanderthal genome is largely known. If it becomes possible to reconstruct a live Neanderthal person, what, in your opinion, would be the pros and cons? I’m genuinely interested in canvassing opinions for and against.
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EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations.
Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?
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Join us on April 20 for an evening at The Jolly Gardeners pub for discussion on cricket and poetry, followed by the legendary Nightwatchman quiz
Book now: eventbrite.com/e/book-launch…
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Never Let Me Go: a special screening at the Regents St Cinema + me in conversation for @ppfideas.bsky.social with David Runciman. 19th June, I love this book, and the film too. Science fiction done properly.
regentstreetcinema.com/movie…
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Hey all, I’m not posting in the Sunnydale Hellmouth anymore, but just popping in to say I started a substack, as I believe is a legal requirement for middle aged men. Warning: contains science, snark, light swearing. All free, for now.
open.substack.com/pub/aruthe…
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I mean, could Morgan even describe what mRNA is? Could that walking dead man Bryan Johnson?
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Andrew Wakefield wrote a small, scientifically worthless paper pretending vaccines had something to do with autism.
It turned out to be not just crap but actually fraudulent, for which he lost his medical licence.
He's one of the biggest villains in medical history.
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And yet we know that blue skies research is more productive and the ROI higher than directed projects 🤷🏽♂️
As a taxpayer (irrespective of whether you’re a scientist) would you would be in favor of more of the @NIH budget going to fund efforts to solve specific diseases at the expense of basic exploratory research? Which diseases?
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Boy kings, we gave power to morally bankrupt children, who steal our work, and rob for fun. Historian spoiler alert: it never ends well for these unelected despots.
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POTUS IQ fetishism now joined by Veep. Neither of them have the faintest clue what IQ is nor how it is measured.
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.
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I’ll go one further: the repercussions for people without mRNA in them will be extreme, and they will be permanently excluded from civil society.
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"The American right has no coherent message or ideology besides being against the left. It has no good answer to the major issue of our time, which is the question of lingering race disparities. We have almost no effective institutions. We control literally zero serious PhD-granting universities. Even universities in solid red states remain in the hands of our opponents. Among graduate students and assistant professors at elite institutions, our representation is very close to zero percent. The right has been shut out of editing Wikipedia—the most influential source of (alleged) information in our society. Conservative culture revolves largely around figures who are some combination of grifter, crackpot, criminal, conspiracy theorist, anti-Semite, or racist-in-a-bad-way. We produce virtually no art, music, or literature. Right-wing discourse is dominated by people doing 'physiognomy checks' on each other, calling Democrats pedophiles, and telling people not to get vaccinated and that they can cure their cancer with ivermectin. None of this was changed by the election of Donald Trump."
Source: ncofnas.com/p/was-i-wrong-ab…
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RT @hopenothate: 💥🕵️ NEW: Disgraced former government advisor Andrew Sabisky - who quit in a 2020 race science scandal - has built a hidden…
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We are a country where historically and scientifically illiterate ideologues are elevated to power by nepotism, lickspittle and cronyism. The upwards failure of these men of ignorance is depressing.
Many congratulations to Lord Young of Acton and the Lord Biggar CBE, who were introduced to the House of Lords today.
We all, at Catholics in the Conservative Party, wish them well and they are assured of our prayers.
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