Would you as a rule exclude, say, Muslims from hospital wards because they might make elderly patients uncomfortable? Of course not. Discomfort cannot on its own inform policy, for the simple and obvious reason that discomfort is often entirely misplaced!

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your reminder that RD is not so much a scientist that publishes peer reviewed research, as he is a popular author (and a bad one at that) scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

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The White House announcing it’s leaning against livestreaming an execution is not exactly the kind of headline you wanna see in the year of our Lord 2026.

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My uni have released their PhD funding call. It’s a competitive, cross uni scheme. My advice: it needs some consideration ‘real world’ (broadly defined). But there’s great research (&engagement) happening in my dept www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni... & School. Start chats early. Deadline: 29/01/27

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Last year this was me and they put me in the men’s admission ward, obviously. Now they’d be tying themselves in knots, because they clearly couldn’t put me in women’s even if I was willing

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