Thread by @snigskitchen

Downing St refuses to say if Boris Johnson agrees with adviser who suggested black people are mentally inferior and backed compulsory contraception. “The prime minister’s views are well publicised and well documented.”
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

November 2013 Boris Johnson at the 3rd Margaret Thatcher Lecture: “Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests, it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality... as many as 16 per cent of our species have an IQ below 85 while about two per cent have an IQ above 130.”

Sources:
Full video:
Report: newstatesman.com/politics/2015/…
Relevant part of video:

https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1229393813338230785?s=20

Why are Andrew Sabisky's views such a problem? Have a look. He believes in dubious and discredited "race science". This is who Dominic Cummings has appointed as his "super forecaster". An actual, explicit racist.

Here are Andrew Sabisky's Islamophobic views, tinged with a hint of racism. His 2014 comments posted in response to a blog post on child protection. Archived here: archive.is/T6Qj1

Andrew Sabisky: “Eugenics are about selecting ‘for’ good things, intelligence is largely inherited and it correlates with better outcomes: physical health, income, lower mental illness. There is no downside to having IQ except short-sightedness.”
archive.is/l2VpP

Andrew Sabisky says that intelligence and educational achievement is because of [inherited] "innate qualities of persons". From an appendix to this book by Didau.

Andrew Sabisky: "I am always straight up in saying that women's sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men's".
archive.is/en2kq

Sabisky "it is still unclear to what extent FGM represents a serious risk to young girls", "I do not doubt... there are a large number of... women in the UK, but... most of them will a) have been cut abroad & b) not been born here in the first place."
archive.is/G9lLR

Sabisky, with more quasi scientific nonsense on heritability, intelligence and education. "Individual differences in intelligence and academic outcomes are largely a result of genes, not environments." Online published paper archived here:
archive.is/2hxAZ

Andrew Sabisky "One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty": comment on Dominic Cummings' blog, August 2014. archive.is/sixV8

Andrew Sabisky: “From a societal perspective the benefits of giving everyone [mind enhancing drug] modafinil once a week are probably worth a dead kid once a year”. archive.is/l2VpP

Someone is BOUND to get in touch to argue the toss on race & IQ, here is a thread debunking spurious race science claims that any gap in intelligence / educational attainment is substantially caused by genetic differences / the result of natural selection.

https://twitter.com/itsbirdemic/status/1221963483174096898

And since I will probably get some person replying about how black people are better athletes or some other unscientific stereotype, please read this by @AdamRutherford: theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…

@AdamRutherford Because the racists always love to pretend they are not really racist. It's always "Asians are clever" and "black people are better athletes" so they can get away with their racial purity and white supremacy BS. Exhausting dealing with pseudoscientific nonsense.

@AdamRutherford So why did Dominic Cummings hire Andrew Sabisky? You might want to look into his history and strange views. Read this two part investigation by @Otto_English
Part 1: bylinetimes.com/2020/01/09/the…
Part 2: bylinetimes.com/2020/01/13/the…

The transcript of the interview with the Number 10 spokesperson today is something to behold. See how many opportunities were given to say Boris Johnson doesn't believe in eugenics or in race science. Count them. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Great thread on why eugenics are BS.

https://twitter.com/juniordrblog/status/1229435173743321089?s=19

Here is evidence of Andrew Sabisky speaking at Toby Young's eugenics conference, the now ditched "Conference on Intelligence": rationalwiki.org/wiki/London_Co…

Sabisky has resigned from his post. That shouldn't be the end of this. Dominic Cummings must answer questions about the appointment itself. Boris Johnson has yet to distance himself from support for eugenics and the bogus notions on race and intelligence: bbc.com/news/amp/uk-po…

This morning Scottish newspaper The National reveals the abhorrent, supposedly religiously justified misogynist Reddit posts made by Andrew Sabisky, who quit tonight. Pure Handmaid's Tale stuff.
"Blessed be the fruit", "May the Lord open."
thenational.scot/news/18242099.…

Andrew Sabisky wrote for Quilette in 2016 on "The White Death", with more rambling, unscientific musings on IQ and heritability. But of greater concern is the white replacement rhetoric of the far right and alt-right.
Archived here: archive.is/WpHXL

Andrew Sabisky comments, approvingly, on a blog post in 2014 claiming the UK will be majority Muslim in 30 years time; the rhetoric of the alt-right and far right.
His comment is on the left. The relevant part of the blog post on the right.
archive.is/J45ty

Andrew Sabisky 2016 book review, now deleted from the Adam Smith Institute website. He gushes over the proposal that fertility should be targeted by welfare policy: eugenics, population control and social engineering. web.archive.org/web/2016042103…

Another thread debunking eugenics as pseudoscience.

https://twitter.com/max_walrus/status/1229056874055639045?s=19

Here is another thread from a prominent scientist discrediting and debunking eugenics.

https://twitter.com/davecurtis314/status/1229701171721445376?s=19