Boris Lenhard

He is Labour’s Robert Jenrick and proud of it.

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people!
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.

“We need a debate” = “We want to be able to spout unscientific nonsense unchallenged”

She is Labour’s Suella Braverman.

The Labour does not need a Suella Braverman. No decent party does.

Michael is a terrible disappointment - a climate science hero fighting against bad climate science and climate change deniers, yet promoting notoriously bad science outside his expertise here, and blocking people who dare to point it out.

Since Michael blocked me, I will put it here:

The study paper is published in a journal whose founding editors and current senior editors are Collegium Ramazzini Fellows). The paper only had two reviewers, one being Peter Clausing, an activist from the Pesticide Action Network NGO.

Lovely.

P.S. There are also peer-reviewed, comprehensive looking studies with climate change-denying conclusions. You refute their conclusions, and rightly so. This is a biomedical equivalent of such studies. Trust the consensus - don’t act like a biomedical equivalent of a climate change denier.

Exactly that.

Ramazzini institute and the foundation that funds it is an infamous place dedicated to proving toxicity of everything - failing to do so is a mission failure for them. It peddled bad studies of aspartame toxicity for years. This is another such study with conditions irrelevant for human exposure.

It hasn’t. The studies supporting adverse effects have been really poor. It is better to leave it to toxicologists and medical researchers to judge the evidence.

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There is. A Dubai-based one.

Wasn’t this how Jim Hacker became Prime Minister?

But he comes across like somebody designed by McSweeney and Mandelsson. Performative cruelty, Palantir, rows with NHS doctors - he is everything the traditional Labour voters are rejecting at the moment.

He does look a bit like Sir Humphrey Appleby…

People keep confusing benefits of (any kind of) handwriting over no handwriting (for which there is some evidence) with benefits of cursive over block letters (for which there is none).

It won’t, at least for writing. Reading closely might make a comeback, though.

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While I agree in principle, a PhD in Europe lasts 3-4 years, and it helps the student's career a lot to have a decent first-author paper. Some of our colleagues sacrifice many students on the altar of their next GREAT paper, which advances their career but not so much the students'.

That’s possible - I just haven’t heard it from colleagues who went to state schools.

Based on the jobs they hold now and the fact that some are very good at them, I can guarantee that they were not morons. I suspect, however, that their attitude towards history has not been shaped solely by the content of GCSE textbooks...

E.g., they seemed to have no awareness of the character of the British rule over Ireland; post-Brexit vote, during the discussions of how to keep the NI border invisible, some seriously suggested that, because of history, the Republic of Ireland should go with the UK instead of the EU...

They are not the only ones. From talking to my friends and colleagues who were publicly schoolboys in the UK, I got an impression that they were taught a parallel-universe version of history at Eton.

A bigger problem for the advisor is if they leave science and lose interest in finishing their project. Unless you are a micromanager or a helicopter advisor, when a project involves lots of data and code (e.g. in genomics) it is often difficult to hand it over to somebody else smoothly.

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It seems to be confusing "viral" with "pathological".

I have heard similar stories from two different BBC employees. And as for the government, there's Murdoch's famous "When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice". (Yes, I know that he late denied having said it; but his behaviour fits the description.)

It is nothing new. Consecutive UK governments, and the BBC, have been scared of the likes of Daily Mail and Murdoch newspapers and have pandered to them. This is just more of the same.

Even on immigration, Farage first tells people what to think and then "listens" when they regurgitate it.