Richard Dawkins ✓
@RichardDawkins · joined 17 Jun 2008
UK biologist & writer
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In a free country, you are entitled to believe you are a woman with a penis. But not to take it into a female changing room, nor to cheat your way into a female athletic competition, nor in any way to impose your private delusion on the rest of us.
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The real reason children no longer enjoy reading.” Mary Wakefield has a theory in the latest Spectator. Instead of screen addiction, she blames school curricula which teach “to the test” rather than reading for enjoyment. Children are so busy analysing brief extracts, they can’t
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"Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat
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How often is the author of a book still around to witness its 50th anniversary edition? The Selfish Gene is 50. I’ll be coming to America’s two great cultural landmarks, Chicago’s Symphony Center and New York’s Carnegie Hall, to speak about it. Two nights only.
Tickets:
Chicago,
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@RichardDawkins The scientific part of Cambridge needs to distance itself from the diploma mill of made-up subjects, otherwise the entire reputation of the university will not survive.
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@RichardDawkins While I agree with the overall sentiment, it's important to realize that the problems go much farther than merely the Department of Education.
For example, the Master of the Jesus College at Cambridge, Sonita Alleyne, signed a letter stating that she stood in unw
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@RichardDawkins Richard, this is very unfair, I am confident that some of these PhD students will receive the Nobel prize for Cambridge - and then you will have to reconsider your whole body of work.
https://t.co/WBvdhTQkdZ https://t.co/8WpmJ2hKxR
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The University of Cambridge can boast 126 Nobel Prizes. That’s more than any other university in the world except Harvard, and it does it on an endowment that is one twentieth the endowment of Harvard. In the Nobel ranking, Cambridge beats MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale
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@RichardDawkins @Inevitablewest https://t.co/SY2KXSrpN8
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@RichardDawkins I've worked with suicidal clients, and I lost a parent to suicide. Suicide is not a joke. However, the idea that it can be turned into a weapon, used to threaten others and to become immune to criticism, is frankly a greater danger to society. A person's fragile c
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@RichardDawkins @wrench_ala39543 You’re completely bypassing decades of in-doctrinal brainwashing with woke ideology.
The reason why they ask “what colour is his skin” first is because of Critical Race Theory and post colonialism that posits that all white people are bad or gui
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I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not,
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Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:
Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him
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Extracts from a further Spectator article (Aug 15) by Andrew Gilligan:
An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven days. It promotes an academic paper demanding that schoolchildren be taught to
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Extracts from 11 Aug article in Spectator by Andrew Gilligan:
After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University.
We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been
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@RichardDawkins Why not ask the same question for Homo erectus? https://t.co/KkWTPeSgCA
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@RichardDawkins @si_rubinstein Cons: stranding a being that’s likely at a near-human level of sentience in a place that’s subtly but entirely wrong for it and, unless hundreds of Neanderthals are brought back, dooming them to extinction for a second time.
Pros: Neanderthussy mig
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@RichardDawkins Bring them all back, especially the dinosaurs. Fake it if you have to.
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Neanderthal genome is largely known. If it becomes possible to reconstruct a live Neanderthal person, what, in your opinion, would be the pros and cons? I’m genuinely interested in canvassing opinions for and against.
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views127 657this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %4.45%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %2.61%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 127 657 | 14 648 | 8.71× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.45% | 0.74% | 6.02× |
| Engagement rate | 2.61% | 0.70% | 3.74× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
446.1K15 Aug
574.4K16 Aug
3.7M19 Aug
101.5K
89.6K
106.5K
1.1M21 Aug
26.2K
36.7K
9.2K
126.6K10 Sep
127.7K14 Sep
345.5K21 Sep
777.5K22 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.02%15 Aug
2.61%16 Aug
2.28%19 Aug
3.21%
3.43%
3.24%
1.76%21 Aug
3.23%
4.36%
5.20%
2.47%10 Sep
1.04%14 Sep
1.93%21 Sep
2.99%22 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes77.7%157 756 in total
Reposts11.0%22 268 in total
Replies4.0%8 026 in total
Quotes1.0%2 081 in total
Bookmarks6.3%12 834 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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