Richard Dawkins
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UK biologist & writer richarddawkins.com
Natural selection is a blind watchmaker, yet its products can be astonishingly beautiful. Ernst Haeckel captured that beauty in illustrations accompanying my book, 42 Tales from Life. Waterstones offers 25% off pre-orders with code SUMMER26 until Friday, 24 July. www.waterstones.com/book/42-tale...
Fifty years ago, The Selfish Gene was published. The ideas — replicators, memes, the gene's-eye view of life — have held up rather well. The 50th Anniversary Edition is out now. Available at: amazon.co.uk/Selfish-Gene...
Aggressively dominant male mammals typically urinate to scent-mark their territory. “I’ll piss where I like." "I❤️pissin' on TERFs." They think they’re women. But can you imagine a better walking, talking, reeking advertisement for toxic masculinity? #SexMatters
thetimes.com/uk/society/a... Supreme Court rules that a woman is legally defined as . . . a woman. Congratulations. And “The concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man”. Yes, the science was settled in the Precambrian. Nice that the law has finally caught up.
JK Rowling hails Supreme Court ruling on trans women — as it happened
Author and women’s rights campaigner welcomes judgment that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex
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Excellent article by Jerry Coyne. archive.ph/DbQi9 FFRF is an admirable foundation led by good friends. Alas, like most secular/humanist/atheist orgs (except Center for Inquiry RDF) they were hijacked by a silly juvenile cult. Fortunately the silly cult’s days are numbered
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Majority IQ <=100 & they vote. To Make A country Great you need elite minority of intellectuals. Elite scientists fleeing Hitler importantly helped win WW2. eg Frisch & Peierls 1st to calculate atom bomb possible. US scientists now lead world. Canada, UK, EU, should welcome them
The Discontinuous Mind. Does it ever get it right? richarddawkins.substack.com/p/the-discon...
The Discontinuous Mind. Does it ever get it right?
Part 1 of this article is a much abbreviated version of “The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind”, my 2011 essay in which I criticised our human tendency to draw lines that gratuitously split smooth con...
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Biological sex erased from official data in the UK with harmful consequences
This new 232-page government-commissioned study, called “the Sullivan Report” after its leader, opens this way (click on the screenshot below to see the whole thing). This independent r…
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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, showing the world how to be presidential:
