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We still can't get over how much fun our #VoltaireLecture was! It was our best attended Voltaire Lecture to date! Thank you to all of our attendees, to @theAliceRoberts for chairing, and of course, to our brand new Voltaire medallist @nicholaraihani!
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We will be releasing a full video the #VoltaireLecture very soon, so keep your eyes peeled. In the meantime, please do check out our other lectures online! youtube.com/humanistsuk
For anyone who has any doubts about the science behind vaccination (or if you just want to know more!) – watch our Rosalind Franklin Lecture 'Racing against the virus', with Professor Sarah Gilbert and @SamiraAhmedUK.
'It's unfortunate,' says @AdamRutherford 'that I'm here discussing an issue that we thought and hoped had gone away a long time ago,' starting off his #VoltaireLecture 
Against a backdrop of increased racially motivated violence in recent years and an explosion in racism-in-politics controversies, we can accept that racism is at least less publicly acceptable than it was a number of decades ago. #VoltaireLecture
Has racism returned? 'It never went away,' says Adam. 'Structural racism is a part of our society...' #VoltaireLecture
