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Dr Adam Rutherford
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Dr Adam Rutherford
@AdamRutherford
Back off man, I'm a scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement
Joined March 2009
- Geneticist here. You can’t make facial profiles or accurate pigmentation predictions from DNA, and this is dangerous snake oil.
- Dude is gonna die like the rest of us, but will have had a miserable time getting there.Millionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson (who already has a cult-like following) plans to start his own NATION for anti-agers... where pizza, donuts and alcohol will be illegal trib.al/Zt08oCG
- Weird, a pair of actual Jehovah's witnesses just knocked on the door, and asked me what I thought about the origin of life. "Um, you may have picked the wrong house here. I have 165 slides and a book'.
- Ignore all the noise of this hellsite and blast this glorious symphony into your head!
- I think, in all my years on Twitter, this might be my favourite exchange.
- True story: I sat opposite Diane Abbott on a train last year on the way back from Hay on Wye and she was drinking an iced coffee. But I didn't take a photo of her cos I am not a fucking tool.
- This makes me so angry. I’ve known Kev since I was 18, and I’ve never seen him like this. I don’t believe in hell, but these medics and carers were in it, and the bastards who made light of this plague, denied it, called it a flu, and made it worse for everyone, you deserve it.Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
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I know a lot of people who regret getting the vaccine. Don’t know anyone who regrets not getting it.- Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws
- Woman disappears - she had a drinking problem. Man murders woman - he was a competent tennis player, and she did him wrong anyway. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but t’s so interesting what is considered important information.
- It’s a historian’s *actual job* to rewrite history. I wish people would make the slightest effort to understand that. People have been in the place that is now Britain for thousand of years longer than white skin existed.
