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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. 9.2K views · 453 likes · 21 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

@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 1M views · 15.4K likes · 1.8K reposts · 1K replies Open on X →

@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 89.6K views · 2.9K likes · 122 reposts · 40 replies Open on X →

@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 101.5K views · 3.1K likes · 140 reposts · 43 replies Open on X →

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, 3.7M views · 71.7K likes · 9.8K reposts · 2K replies Open on X →

Richard Dawkins ✓@RichardDawkins16 Aug

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 570.5K views · 11.6K likes · 2.6K reposts · 541 replies Open on X →

Richard Dawkins ✓@RichardDawkins15 Aug

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 445K views · 6.6K likes · 1.8K reposts · 315 replies Open on X →

Richard Dawkins ✓@RichardDawkins12 Aug

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 284.3K views · 5.3K likes · 1.2K reposts · 212 replies Open on X →

@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 7.4K views · 376 likes · 5 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

@RichardDawkins Bring them all back, especially the dinosaurs. Fake it if you have to. 124.7K views · 2.7K likes · 125 reposts · 367 replies Open on X →