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I will be on a tour of North America, the UK & EU, talking about my latest book, religion, life on Earth and Beyond. I will be joined on stage by a range of friends and foes. The events will include a Q&A and a limited meet-and-greet. You can get your tickets here:…

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Richard Dawkins

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1 year

I disagree with what you said. Therefore what you said is hate speech.

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Richard Dawkins

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My beloved mother died today, a month short of her 103rd birthday. As a young wartime bride she was brave and adventurous. Her epic journey up Africa, illegally accompanying my father, is recounted in passages from her diary, reproduced in An Appetite for Wonder. Rest in Peace.

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Richard Dawkins

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Saw a down-and-out in Seattle last night. His sign said not "I need food" or "I need a job" but "I need a fat bitch". What could this mean?

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Richard Dawkins

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Sex is clearly binary, declaring oneself to be otherwise is a distortion of reality. #Gender #Science #PoetryOfReality

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“Sex is not the same as gender.” But it’s not your gender that gives you the physique to tower over woman athletes & break their swimming records. It’s your sex. It’s not your undressed gender that upsets women in changing rooms. It’s your sex. You can’t eat your cake & have…

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National pride has evil consequences. Prefer pride in humanity. German pride gave us Hitler, American pride gave us Trump, British pride gave us Brexit. If you must have pride, be proud that Homo sapiens could produce a Darwin, Shakespeare, Mandela, Einstein, Beethoven.

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Year/Month/Day makes sense because it narrows down from large time unit to small. Day/Month/Year makes sense because it broadens out from small time unit to large. The US convention, Month/Day/Year, makes no sense at all, is indefensible, and should be abandoned.

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Richard Dawkins

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3 years

With few exceptions like Putin & Farage, the entire world welcomes President Biden and Vice-President Harris. After four years of lies, venal hypocrisy and vicious hostility to decency and humane values, America has taken a major step towards making America great again.

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Richard Dawkins

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4 years

In 1665 Cambridge University closed because of plague. Isaac Newton retreated to rural Lincolnshire. During his 2 years in lockdown he worked out calculus, the true meaning of colour, gravitation, planetary orbits & the 3 Laws of Motion. Will 2020 be someone’s Annus Mirabilis?

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Richard Dawkins

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How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language? I was about to start work on this commission, when in came an email from Twitter. They’d received a complaint that the following tweet violated their standards. “Sex is not the same as gender.” But it’s…

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Richard Dawkins

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Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.

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Richard Dawkins

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1 year

The buzz words of the campus—diversity, inclusion, microaggression, power differential, white privilege, group safety—have become the buzz words in public life. Already confusing on campus, they become noxious off campus.

Progressive professors: the root of all evil

. . . or so says Russell Jacoby, author and Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UCLA. What seems weird to me in his Wikipedia bio is this: In 2009, he was appointed to the Moishe Gonzales Fo…

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Richard Dawkins

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6 years

There there, I do understand, taking away your guns is like taking away your Comfort Blanky. You’ll feel bereaved. Tell you what, though. We know how to deal with bereavement. We’ll send you our thoughts and prayers. Then you’ll feel better.

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Richard Dawkins

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4 years

It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.

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Richard Dawkins

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3 years

When I tweet on politics, even if I merely post a url, I get many replies like “Stick to science. Politics is not your field.” Which field, then, does qualify one to hold a political opinion? Are scientists specifically disqualified from thinking & caring about the world?

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This ridiculous article (shame on the once-great Scientific American) ignorantly misunderstands the nature of the sex binary: “Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary”. Sex is not defined by chromosomes, nor by anatomy, nor by psychology or sociology, nor by…

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The way the non-binary faithful obsess about intersexes, and about individuals who can’t produce gametes, amounts to a pathetic clutching at straws while they drown in postmodern effluent. Yes, some fish change from sperm-producing male to egg-producing female (or vice versa).…

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2 years

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

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7 months

Whatever your historically based political sympathies, if you have even a shred of human decency you surely cannot morally justify Saturday's barbaric attacks on innocent civilians. “A plague o’ both your houses” is, for once, inappropriate.

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Richard Dawkins

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3 years

If lions were discovered weaving antelope-catching nets ten lion-lengths wide, it would be headline news. Yet spiders weave intricate insect-catching nets hugely bigger than themselves, and we treat it as commonplace. What’s the difference?

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Those who say sex is a spectrum don’t realise how rare intersex humans are. Frequency histogram runs out of graph paper, so represent frequency of unambiguous males & females by NY’s twin towers respectively. Then frequency of intersexes is a medium sized molehill. Sex is binary.

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Richard Dawkins

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6 years

Brett Kavanaugh is wholly unsuited to be a Supreme Court justice, not because he was a very nasty teenager but because he is a very nasty, and injudicious, 53-year-old, with no capacity to rise above party politics, which is – after all – a main point of the Supreme Court.

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Richard Dawkins

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5 years

To become a brain-surgeon, bridge-designer, airline pilot, ship’s captain, you need rigorously examined qualifications, fitting the serious responsibility. To lead a major country with nukes & a trillion-scale budget … er … let me see, what are your qualifications?

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Richard Dawkins

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7 years

Holocaust. Both sides to blame: Jews for being Jews and Nazis for killing them.

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Richard Dawkins

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7 years

“Ashamed to be American?” Don’t be. The majority of you voted against this narcissistic, xenophobic, vainglorious, ignorant 2-year-old.

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Richard Dawkins

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5 years

In the 3 years since my stroke I’ve seen lots of NHS doctors. I’m continually overwhelmed by their kindness, intelligence, frankness & (as far as I can judge) competence. Ditto the nurses, phlebotomists etc., many from east Europe. Thank you. And it’s all completely free.

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Richard Dawkins

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2 years

Picking up inspiring indications that the protests in Iran are gathering strength. The BBC reporter concluded, “Who knows where it will end?” Decent people all over the world must hope it will end with the toppling of the disgusting Ayatollahs and their Islamic tyranny.

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Richard Dawkins

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6 years

Do dogs go to Heaven? Only pets, not wild animals? If only humans go to Heaven, how far back? Homo erectus? Australopithecus? Only people who lived after Jesus? Not Abraham, Moses or Elijah, then. Which “you” will be in Heaven? Senile you with dementia? Midlife-crisis you?

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9 months

Preferred pronouns are a slippery slope #gender #PoetryofReality #pronouns

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Richard Dawkins

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“Terrorists use trucks to kill, so why don’t you ban trucks?” That has to be the silliest of all the silly arguments of the gun crazies. Trucks are designed & used for other things. Like transporting stuff. Military rifles are designed & used for nothing other than killing.

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Richard Dawkins

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6 years

Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester, one of our great mediaeval cathedrals. So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding “Allahu Akhbar.” Or is that just my cultural upbringing?

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Richard Dawkins

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2 years

Forget labels like “right wing” & “dark web”, read a book without preconceptions about the author & judge what it actually says. For what it’s worth, I always vote left & I think Douglas Murray’s The War on the West is utterly superb. Please read it with an open mind. Please.

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Richard Dawkins

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10 months

Have you ever in your life encountered a genuine woman who would stand up before a crowd and incite them to punch people "in the fucking face"? No, I thought not.

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Richard Dawkins

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4 years

Nasty FOREIGN virus. Lock it up! Lock it up! Keep America safe. No FOREIGNERS from Europe allowed. Except Brits of course. They’re not really foreign. They speak English. Don’t they? I think they do, I went to London, I met the Queen, they love me there

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“You’re Islamophobic.” No! I’m phobic about: FGM Whipping women for being raped Pushing gays off buildings Honour killing Death for apostasy, extramarital sex, etc Teaching children anti-scientific nonsense I’m NOT Muslimophobic. Muslims are main victims of the above.

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Richard Dawkins

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7 years

Why the world would be happier without Islam Misogyny Homophobia Sharia Joyless control freakery Terrorism Hostility to science & education

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Richard Dawkins

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2 years

Please sign the Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights. I have just done so.

Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights - Women's Declaration International

The Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights

womensdeclaration.com

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Richard Dawkins

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3 years

The US President has the single most important job in the world. Today we wake up to a hugely better, brighter, more hopeful world with a President who, whatever shortcomings may emerge, is at least not a lying, self-enriching, vain, lazy, incompetent, unqualified scoundrel.

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Richard Dawkins

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4 years

Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu is the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award winner and I could not be more pleased. The Center for Inquiry, on whose board I sit, has designated him this year's recipient for his courageous public stands on behalf of atheism, rationality, and freethought.

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It’s the double standard that gets to me. Young couple at Doha airport. He dressed like student on vacation, open neck, short-sleeved t-shirt, baseball cap. She, full black bin-bag, narrow slit for eyes. Oh but of course, she likes it, makes her feel empowered. Yeah, right.

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Richard Dawkins

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5 years

Hostility to religion is not the same as hostility to religious people. Quite the contrary. Muslims are the main victims of Islam’s cruelty. I am deeply hostile to Islam & I warmly applaud NZ’s wonderful Prime Minister in her moving display of love for her country’s Muslims.

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Richard Dawkins

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4 years

You can argue over whether masks, handwashing, banning groups etc are effective. What you can NOT argue is that you are personally entitled to take the risk as a matter of individual liberty. You risk other lives as well as your own. It’s just elementary epidemiology.

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Richard Dawkins

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7 years

This is your captain. I’ve no flying experience or qualifications but boundless confidence in my ability. No need to fasten your seat belts.

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Richard Dawkins

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5 months

Sorry I couldn't be there, marching with them.

Thousands march against antisemitism in show of unity with British Jews

Tens of thousands of people marched through London yesterday in the largest demonstration against antisemitism for nearly a century.Boris Johnson, the former

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Richard Dawkins

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2 years

A university should be a true Safe Space: not safe FROM dangerous ideas but safe FOR free discussion of them.

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Richard Dawkins

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3 years

Give this woman a Nobel Prize. UPenn "told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality,” she said. ”When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website.’”

How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher

For decades, Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA therapeutics was overlooked by her colleagues. Now it's at the heart of the two leading coronavirus vaccines

www.wired.com

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Richard Dawkins

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3 years

President Biden will have an unenviable task picking up the pieces & trying to unite the country after this farcical 4-year tragi-comedy of a presidency. The months till inauguration will be dangerous as a desperate Führer in his bunker tries to pull the world down with him.

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Richard Dawkins

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Keir Starmer agrees that a woman is an adult human female. Will Ed Davey also rejoin the real world, science & the English language by reversing his view that a woman can “quite clearly” have a penis? Inability to face reality in small things bodes ill for more serious matters.

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Richard Dawkins

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PM just announced restrictions affecting Xmas, eg (ambiguous) “You can only meet one person from another household in an outdoor public space.” Seemed OK until “Communal worship can continue to take place.” WHAT? Why? Can you imagine any activity less deserving of priority?

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Richard Dawkins

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7 years

“To vote for Trump as a protest against Clinton’s faults would be like cutting one’s throat to lower one’s blood pressure” (The Atlantic).

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3 years

Merry Christmas! Oh SORRY, Merry Holidays! Children, hang up Holiday Stockings on Holiday Eve for Father Holidays to fill. Sing Holiday Carols round the Holiday Tree after Holiday Dinner. I’m dreaming of a White Holiday. Well, here’s one atheist wishing you a Merry Christmas.

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Scroll down to the audio & marvel as the teacher from hell “scolds pupil for questioning . . .” The girl stands up bravely & intelligently to obnoxious bullying by the scientifically illiterate teacher (who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children).

Student who rejected classmate's claim that she's a CAT is criticised

The 13-year-old pupil said she was made to stay after the class at Rye College in East Sussex by the teacher, who can be heard in a secret recording calling her view that gender is binary 'very sad'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Richard Dawkins

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4 years

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology” Edward O Wilson (2009).

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How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?

In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future

www.standard.co.uk

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3 years

“I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” (Donald Trump, on Twitter). This will ring down the annals as one of the most gracious concession speeches in the history of presidential elections.

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Antibiotics, vaccines, running water, light, warmth, dentistry, surgery, anesthetics, telephone, travel, computers, comfortable access to all human knowledge, music, art, literature, science. We are so fortunate compared to our ancestors. Don’t let’s blow it for our descendants.

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Richard Dawkins

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Hell does not exist, otherwise the members of the National Rifle Association would surely go there. Perhaps they’d experience a form of hell, here and now, if they had the imagination to think of the bereaved, weeping for their children. But no, they’re too stupid to understand.

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Richard Dawkins

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Why do so many Americans love guns? It’s easy to see why you’d love sex. Or sunsets, skiing, music, nature, art, wine. But GUNS? Why guns?

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Yes of COURSE there are people who voted Leave for reasons other than xenophobic bigotry or fading imperial jingoism. I’ve met at least four. But it felt good to be marching through London with the hundred thousand yesterday. And to be reminded of the decent half of Britain.

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University authorities who think that the "hurt feelings" of flat earthers and evolution deniers matter more than scientific truth need to go back to university to learn what a university is for.

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Phone call with the best immunologist I know: Q: Why will vaccine take so long? A: Mostly safety testing Q: In present extreme circs why not relax safety criteria? A: I agree BUT … If we win, we’d be heroes, but if we killed people … + it’d be a gift to the anti-vaxers!

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“Silent face, the marble index of a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.” Wordsworth was writing of Newton, but he might have been foreseeing the silent face of Newton’s great successor as Lucasian Professor.

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Forgot to take something to read in doctor’s waiting room. Had to fall back on magazines provided. Sample headlines: “Mum shut my baby sister in the freezer. I found her behind a meat pie.” “My poor hubby’s privates got EATEN.” People buy magazines like this. They vote

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London gay Pride march. Police happy with “Jesus is Gay” banners. But banned @theCEMB ’s “Allah is Gay” banner. @KPFA -grade hypocrisy!

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Richard Dawkins

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You are a closer cousin to a catfish than a catfish is to a dogfish.

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Richard Dawkins

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“Brexit dream dying, Johnson says, as he resigns.” Excellent news. If ever a squalid, ignoble “deam” deserved to die it is Brexit, The word dream is normally used of something noble, uplifting, idealistic, not this nasty, jingoistic, xenophobic, Farageist Little-Englandism.

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Today, New Zealand science is (Jerry Coyne’s words) circling the drain. And all because of juvenile politics & the racist canard that science is “Western” & needs “decolonising”. Science is not “Western”. It belongs to all humanity. Delved into it further (link to my blog in bio)

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For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work. Just as we breed cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher. But heaven forbid that we should do it.

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The power that religion is capable of exerting over the human mind is monstrous. So powerful it can make even obvious evil, like that of the Taliban, seem righteous to the perpetrators. They sincerely believe God approves their cruelty, honestly believe they are heaven-bound.

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The New Zealand Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor is so ignorant of science that she thinks sex isn’t binary. She may be right about “gender” (whatever that might be) but sex is binary, defined by gamete size. A government’s Chief Scientific Advisor should advise on science,…

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Delighted to receive today in Oxford my first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Everyone should take it as soon as they have the opportunity. No side effects so far, by the way.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m becoming heartily sick of being told the obvious nonsense that “myths” are just as valid an approach to the truth as science, just different. No they aren’t. If there were a better way of getting to the truth, science would adopt it.

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In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black. Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as. Discuss.

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Durn tootin’, great shootin’. Cool dude sertin’ he’s 2nd Mendment rahts. Hell yeah! Every country has its psychopaths. In US they have guns

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My on-stage interviewer in NZ asked my views on their ridiculous science education policy. Spectator happened to ask me to do their Diary same week. The Times picked it up but my NZ friends are betting local media won’t dare. Can Kiwi readers help?

Why I’m sticking up for science

I’m in New Zealand, climax to my antipodean speaking tour, where I walked headlong into a raging controversy. Jacinda Ardern’s government implemented a ludicrous policy, spawned by Chris Hipkins’s...

www.spectator.co.uk

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What an utterly disgusting country Saudi Arabia is.

Saudi Arabia will execute 'atheist for insulting the prophet'

Ahmad Al-Shamri renounced Islam and uploaded his views on social media. The religious police soon visited.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

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Curious about Twitter nastiness. In conversation, we say “I don’t agree because ….” On Twitter, “you vile piece of shit” replaces “because ….” Why? Has it escalated like loudness of talk in crowded room? Starts quiet but escalates till all yell to be heard. Nastier than thou?

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Accosted in restaurant by Flat Earth zealot who intrusively talked at us while friend & I were trying to enjoy our meal. Finally I lost it & said, “You are an ignorant lunatic”. This silenced him but if, by any chance, he sees this, I apologise for my unaccustomed rudeness.

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Modi’s BJP is a tragic affront to India’s secular beginnings. Hinduism is at least as ridiculous as Islam. Between them, these two idiotic religions have betrayed the ideals of Nehru and Gandhi.

Indian science curriculum axes not only evolution, but the periodic table, energy sources, and...

As I wrote in April, India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), decided to remove evolution—a great unifying theory of biology—from all science classes below ̶…

whyevolutionistrue.com

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Is Twitter’s ban of Trump a worrying Free Speech issue? On reflection I think not because (a) Trump went far beyond expression of opinion (which should be protected) to outright lies, demonstrable falsehoods. Falsehoods, moreover which were calculated to (b) incite violence.

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An ape brain, evolved for raw survival on the African savanna, is capable, without further evolution, of understanding the expanding universe; of building quantum theory, computers, CERN; of coordinating the pianist’s fast fingers; of being moved to tears by Bach & Shakespeare

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Psychopaths exist in every country & era, but most don’t gain power. Trump is unusual only in that a substantial minority of people believe his lies, obvious lies that anyone with a minimum of sense should see through. A phenomenon of the age of social media echo chambers.

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Tories will be “toast” if they don’t deliver Brexit. Yes, and Britain will be toast if they do. Which do you most care about, the future of the Tory party or the future of Britain?

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He thought his act was righteous & good, because he seriously believed his holy book. He thought when the police shot him he’d go straight to a special martyr’s heaven with dark-eyed maidens lounging by cool streams. Pity he’ll never know he was wrong.

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Hate at this pathological level demands explanation beyond the obvious low intelligence. I suggest that Godnuts are secretly unconfident of their beliefs & mortally terrified they might be wrong. This translates into hyper-extreme hate of anyone who credibly boosts their doubts.

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Science can find (expensive) ways to tame hurricanes. Science is inspiring. Value it. Science is humanity’s pride & hope. Support science.

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Just finished ‘The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity’ by @DrDebraSoh . Strongly recommended. If even half is true of what she says about the intimidation of scientists in her field of sexology, we need to support the fight-back.

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Only losers lose. I’m not a loser. Therefore I won. By a lot. Therefore by the largest margin in history. Therefore election rigged. Fox says I lost. Therefore Fox are traitors. Therefore I won. All cheer & yell at my rallies. Therefore everyone loves me. Therefore I won.

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Only just discovered the wonderful @TitaniaMcGrath . Pure gold. Please follow her. You won’t regret it.

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“Make America great again”? Obama’s America already WAS great. And now look what you’ve got! A childishly vain, ignorant, petulant wrecker.

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Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day. I had a little jar of honey, now thrown away by rule-bound dundridges. STUPID waste.

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Richard Dawkins

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7 years

“Without God, living things couldn’t be so complex, elegant and functional.” If that’s what you think, go away and learn some biology.

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Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

3 years

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Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

6 years

My “Atheism for Children” book will be unflinching, not a storybook: children won’t beg parents to buy it for Xmas. Are there parents who’ll want to buy it for their children anyway? Do you anticipate a demand? Would you like to see a “children’s God Delusion” by me published?

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Richard Dawkins

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Enjoyed my Parliament visit where Helen Joyce & I addressed a group of MPs. We showed that there are only 2 sexes, no intermediates. We got no dissent in the excellent Q & A. Evidently the “gender” warriors & the “Women can have a penis” science-deniers stayed away.…

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Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

6 years

“Animals” can’t feel pain or emotions? “Animals”? We aren’t plants, fungi or bacteria, so that makes us animals. At what point in our evolution do they think we became capable of feeling pain or emotions? Australopithecus? Homo habilis? Homo erectus.

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Richard Dawkins

@RichardDawkins

4 years

Scientists are not gurus or priests claiming revealed wisdom. Their knowledge comes from carefully controlled research. This Novel Coronavirus is, as its name implies, novel. The necessary research-based knowledge is not yet there. Scientists around the world are working on it.

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