David Pullinger

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@Scroupulos @JustinWolfers Interesting. The scientific name is Ornithorhynchus.

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@CDPL1 @Royal_Greenwich I never knew that. That is appalling!

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@Artemisapphire @balmer_tim Shit in, shit out. Always validate inputs and never let invalid input bring down an entire system. It's basic stuff and inexcusable it has happened.

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@balmer_tim FFS - validate, reject, carry on, fix file, resubmit. Doesn't need a backup system. How the he'll did that software ever pass testing to go live. What idiot assumed that all input files will always be valid.

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

So here’s a modest proposal.

Jason Arday is dead. The circus has lost its main attraction. The tent is still up, the popcorn machine is still warm, and several of the ringmasters are wandering around pretending they were merely checking the fire exits.

Perhaps The Telegraph, The Spectator, Kathleen Stock, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Julie Bindel, Andrew Neil, Brendan O’Neill and the rest of Britain’s newly discovered Society for Relentless Academic Due Diligence could turn their tremendous investigative appetite towards Nathan fucking Cofnas.

You know Nathan.

The self-described race realist whose intervention helped detonate the Arday story.

The bloke who already believed DEI was corrupting academia.

The bloke who has argued that genuine meritocracy would leave vanishingly few Black professors at elite institutions.

The bloke who talks about a “hereditarian revolution”.

The bloke who, while discussing what comes next for his own career, joked that after “the revolution” he might become head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard.

That Nathan Cofnas.

Come on, lads.

You have just spent weeks demonstrating that no biographical pebble is too small to overturn in the sacred pursuit of Truth.

So get the fucking tweezers out.

Go through his history.

Interview the old classmates.

Find the former supervisors.

Call the ex-colleagues.

Dust off the teenage writings.

Read Reptiles with a Conscience from cover to fucking cover.

Check every citation.

Check every footnote.

Find out what he believed before he acquired the qualifications he now uses to defend those beliefs.

Ask when exactly the fascination with hereditarianism began.

Ask what evidence changed his mind.

Ask what evidence could change his mind.

Ask whether race realism emerged reluctantly at the end of an exhausting empirical journey, or whether the destination appeared on the map first and the intellectual road-building project came afterwards.

You wanted to know whether Jason Arday really ran every marathon he claimed.

Excellent.

I would quite like to know whether Nathan Cofnas has actually demonstrated that Black people are genetically less suited to elite intellectual life, or whether he has spent years developing increasingly elaborate reasons for believing something he found compelling in the first place.

Seems at least as fucking interesting as somebody’s 10K split time.

And while we are at it, perhaps ask why the alleged misconduct of one Black academic became so magnificently useful to a man whose existing political project already concerned Black representation, DEI and declining standards.

Was Arday merely a plagiarism case?

Or did Cofnas look at him and see Christmas morning?

Because once you have spent years arguing that progressive universities are artificially elevating Black academics, discovering a celebrated Black Cambridge professor with serious questions hanging over his work must feel less like stumbling across evidence and more like finding a fucking golden ticket inside your ideological Wonka bar.

And apparently that angle is not worth the same excavation?

Really?

Jason Arday tells a tall tale about running and Fleet Street behaves like somebody has discovered the Pentagon Papers.

Nathan Cofnas spends years developing a political programme around hereditarianism and race, then helps frame a national scandal involving a Black professor, and suddenly everyone develops a tremendous respect for intellectual privacy.

How curious.

I am not asking for another pile-on.

I am asking for the same thing you all claimed to worship while Arday was alive:

scrutiny.

Context.

Provenance.

Motivation.

Evidence.

Standards.

Those lovely grown-up words everybody suddenly remembers when they are about to put somebody else under the microscope.

1/2

[Manly Boy @OldBallyOldBoy]

@atrupar

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

Just the US government telling someone tracking their own announcements that any inconsistency between them is down to him being "too ignorant to comprehend".

I suppose incompetence on this scale from a formerly respected country can be hard to grasp.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

We should probably stop putting people who are preparing for the rapture in charge of anything

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@BorisJohnson Bullshit

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@GSGB01 That's not how democracy works!

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@casapinos @Bikery1966 The driver cut the corner. End of story. He was on the wrong side of the road. Just because he couldn't see someone is irrelevant as he shouldn't have been on that side of the road.

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@DanKaszeta So was mine. Exploded all over the inside of the oven.

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

Don’t tell me
Adam Akbar
Alan Akbar
Arran Akbar
And Aled Akbar

Am I close?

Crickets from all the monetised shitpilots who only give a fuck about child rape if it bloats their finances

Never forget
87% of child rape in Britain is from white males

https://t.co/YIVyXHVVN3

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@EssexPR @DarkPhoenix4666 That is some fucked up logic!

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@VickyRichterUSA You should have stopped at "Now, I'm no expert..."

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@WakeUpPatriott C. You're both fuckwits.

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@TRobinsonNewEra @Keir_Starmer Bullshit

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@TrentTelenko ?ml m n

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@MagnaCartaPost @Number10cat *you're

[David Pullinger @davidjlp]

@MagnaCartaPost @Number10cat And your a medieval legal document!