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5 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Why do this? Sure freedom of speech but why seek out a man who assaulted his pregnant wife, and has nothing but ill-informed bile to contribute to the popular discourse?
Yes, university should be a place where you are exposed to positions you disagree with, where ideas should be vigorously debated. But they should also be scholarly places, where the values of robust but respectful argument flourishes.
Liddle is a cipher, and turdy intellectual vacuum, who poisons our discourse and offers nothing but winnets. He is a bin-juice man. Whoever invited him has contempt for scholarship and students.
Theory: Tim Luckhurst and his wife are trying to get sacked so they can join the ranks of the cancelled, which is probably quite lucrative. Probably write for the Telegraph or get a podcast.
I mean, look at state of this. Expect copy.

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26 Nov
Ideas that I cover in depth and with references in my new book, rather than hot takes that imagine a scenario and shit the bed about it. History is always contested, and is always political.
I’ve spoken to RD on this matter and his views seemed to be much more nuanced that this tweet suggests.

Language like ‘they will come for…’ has only negative valence. History is the assessment of figures from the past, and is therefore always changing.
Personally, I think the removal of Galton and Pearson’s names from UCL is right and proper, Fisher probably but his is a more complex story. I don’t think Huxley’s removal from IC is sensible.
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25 Nov
I’ve been in Cambridge. Such a remarkable city steeped in history.
Just a random bin. It’s such a remarkable town.
Darwin's room at Christ's Church College Cambridge.
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22 Oct
Because I have written about the Great Gatsby and because I love it, I thought I’d finally give the recent film a crack.

I think it might be the single shittest thing I’ve ever seen, and resembles the book in the same way that vomitus resembles a delicious meal.
It’s as if it’s been written by someone who overheard someone talking about the book, and then tried to write it down whilst coked off their balls.
I am transfixed by its shitness. Paralysed by turditude. The inexhaustible variety of manballs.
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8 Oct
Right then chums, as well as a new series of Rutherford and @FryRsquared on Radio 4, we also have a new book out this week, crammed full of stories, about how humans invented science to bypass our natural physical and psychological limits. 🧵bit.ly/3oLa82Q
Here’s a quickie: we talk about confirmation bias – my own that I always look at the clock at 11.38, and @FryRsquared that she has a magic orchid that reflects her successes and failures, like in E.T. ‘There’s a sucker born every minute’ as PT Barnum once said. Hannah Fry, left.
@FryRsquared EXCEPT he never said it at all. In upstate New York farm, in 1869, the petrified body of a 10-foot-tall fossilised remains of an ancient Native American were discovered and soon became a huge scientific and tourist attraction.
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23 Sep
It appears that I wrote this week’s editorial in @ScienceMagazine, on eugenics, and the centenary of the 2nd International Eugenics Congress.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
It was a meeting of ghouls and scientists, Davenport, Laughlin and Madison Grant, alongside RA Fisher and Sewall Wright, and shows how close the emerging study of heredity was with the political ideology of eugenics science.org/doi/pdf/10.112…
And some more context, including the role of @ScienceMagazine in the promotion of eugenics at the time (which was fairly typical)

science.org/content/blog-p…
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8 Sep
This thing of utter beauty has arrived. And it has a reading ribbon! @FryRsquared
And pictures! By @theAliceRoberts
And I love reading the index. Where else do you get Luke Skywalker next to the Skraeling? Or Dwayne Johnson, Jesse (my whippet) and Jesus?
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