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7 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I’ll tell you something that is not a social construct. Fondue.

Pray for us.
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I don’t feel good. Is fondue even food? My tongue, why can I feel my tongue
Me post-fondue

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7 Mar
Science is a social construct.

Science is a way of knowing, employing a set of methods that are agreed and performed by people. Science does not exist outside of this framework, even with eloquent flourish.

Ergo, science is a social construct.
The idea of social constructs has for some become synonymous with postmodern, or Frankfurt School bullshittery. I am unsure if RD is doing this here, but it’s unfortunate. Time, money, race are all social constructs, which are all important *because* they are socially constructed
Science is a way of knowing, and it is not possible to have a way of knowing without a human mind. Science only exists as a social construct.
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1 Mar
A quick note of thanks. #HowToArgueWithARacist is at number 2 in the Times paperback charts. I'm very proud to be alongside friends @CCriadoPerez @Philippa_Perry and Deborah Orr, whom we miss terribly.
[I've no idea what that book is at 1, but I do not like the title at all]
I'm proud of this book, and delighted that it has found an audience, not least with it being selected as @Waterstones book of the month.
bit.ly/370vcsj
Here's a line which I think is important - though I borrowed it from Helen Lewis, who borrowed it from someone else.
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26 Feb
I’ve been writing and teaching about eugenics for 20 years, and now it is time to get those ideas down into a book, my 3rd for @jennyjennylord, 4th for @wnbooks #FasterSmarterStronger on the dark history and science of eugenics, and it’s troubling comeback in the 21st century.
@jennyjennylord @wnbooks And here's me talking about it.
@jennyjennylord @wnbooks In the meantime, i'll be giving the annual @CPMOxford lecture tonight at 6, bit.ly/3kusWzc
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3 Feb
Its very hard to reconcile this tweet with the history of intelligence testing. The first attempt to standardise preIQ cognitive ability tests were by the British eugenicist Francis Galton.
The Binet-Simon test in 1905 was intended to identify mental retardation in school children, and they were indeed French. This was standardised in 1916 by American eugenicist Lewis Tiernan into the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.
G was introduced by the British eugenicist Charles Spearman in 1904.

The Binet and Simon Test of Intellectual Capacity was published in 1908 by the American eugenicist Henry Goddard.

The term IQ was coined by the German psychologist William Stern.
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21 Jan
This callow actor casually slagging off physics teachers on the BBC is shameful, embarrassing, and anti-educational. It serves none of the BBC’s values.
I don't wish a pile on. But these stereotypes are damaging. It's stuff similar to this that tells girls they can't do physics, or that science is for nerds not cool kids.
These anti-intellectual stereotypes are why we have such cultural ignorance about scientific practice, which fuel conspiracy theories about climate change or vaccines, or pandemics.
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8 Jan
So here’s a question. The cosplay wieners who broke into the Capitol buildings and then, like wandered around. What did they *think* was going to happen? That Trump would be reinstated? That they would form a government and slavery would be ok again?
Cos now, lots of them are going to gaol for a while, and won’t be able to get jobs.
Cosplay General Hux with his assault rifle and Hitler Youth knife is now basically unemployable forever. What was his plan?
‘Hey, aren’t you that guy who said to a billion people that you’d shoot *all* boomers?’
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