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Oct 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
As with the fact that the Day Today/BrassEye became not satire but a template for TV news, here, C4 embrace Charlie Brooker's iconic TV Go Home, with some of the stupidest ideas for a programme ever conceived. Channel 4 buys painting by Hitler – and may let Jimmy Carr
Mind you, once they asked me to do a show in which I took anabolic steroids one week, and Viagra the next, to see what effect it had on my genitals and sex life. #science #FFS
One time, when we were pitching an idea, years ago, they poo-pood them all, and I was out of gas, so suggested Monkey Tennis. The response was a pause, followed by 'I think that's more Channel 5 than Channel 4'.
Here's a sample of TVGoHome. Google for more
Mind you, this is all coming from the man who presented Will it Snow? on BBC2. So you should probably ignore me.

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Oct 8
If only *anyone* involved in saying this had even the slightest knowledge of history, notably the history of eugenics, or Nazi Germany.
The article in the Sun describes it as ‘wacky!’

In 1938, Hitler introduced the Faith and Beauty scheme, including gold medals for women with seven children, silver to women with six, and bronze to women with five.

Wacky!
This is the Cross of Honour for German Mothers, the medal awarded for women who bore the most Volksdeutsche children, as part of restocking the Aetna Master Race.

Bonkers!
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Oct 5
And so to the @royalsociety, for a day discussing the misuse of genetics, eugenics and the legacy of Francis Galton.

How depressingly necessary.
I’m sorry for so much ire, I really like Twitter best when posting stupid memes. But my work is on the misuse of genetics, and science more broadly to justify ideologies. The Edmonton phrenology, and Wolf’s absolute balls are part of a long pernicious legacy. And are dangerous.
Programme. @TommyShakes and @profjoecain leading the charge.
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Oct 5
Geneticist here. You can’t make facial profiles or accurate pigmentation predictions from DNA, and this is dangerous snake oil.
Well that went nuts. Couple of points:
* I do know that you can make probabilistic estimations of skin colour based on DNA - I wrote a book about this - but their utility for ID is weak
* for all the ‘what about Cheddar Man’ bros, it’s also in the book…
… it’s a great paper and analysis, though I am more circumspect about the reconstruction maquette.
* all the anime avatar dudes, I enjoyed blocking you 👍🏽
* interestingly, arch-eugenicist and super-racist Francis Galton was was instrumental in debunking phrenology. Francis Galton, a very clever git
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Sep 28
Casual racism log for the week - posh lady edition:
1.I mentioned that a friend has Jewish ancestry. Response: ‘oh that explains her big nose’
2. Brit living in NYC I met said she would’ve left the US when Trump was elected, but couldn’t go north cos Canada was too cold, and couldn’t go south cos ‘well y’know, Hispanics lolz’
3.Same woman on discovering I am mixed race Indo-Guyanese: ‘oh that is so *exotic*’
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Sep 21
'We don't know why humankind was at war with the cows, and tragically we never will'.

Cunk on Earth is the best science doc I've ever seen. Better than the Ascent of Man, Cosmos. It's what Sapiens could've been, if it was better written. And researched.

bbc.in/3UpHhyd
‘It’s hard to believe I’m walking through the first ever city. Because I’m not. That’s in Iraq, which is miles away. And fucking dangerous.’
'Greece was where the birth of civilisation was born. The ancient Greeks invented many things we still have today, like medicine and olives. And lots of things that have died out, like democracy and pillars.'
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Sep 20
Apparently, it's Sea Otter Awareness Week.

<cracks knuckles>

ht @bex_tweets
I have garnered something of a reputation for being an Otter Hater. This is not true. I see that otters frequently, do things that are unbearably cute, but my righteous ire is directed specifically at Sea Otters #NotAllOtters
So, one last time*

* not contractually binding.
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