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Prof Francois Balloux

@BallouxFrancois

Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics and global health

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It's been 48 hours since a new mass grave was discovered at al-Shifa hospital of patients & Gazans slaughtered & covered up by the IDF

I CANNOT find a single word about it in any Western mainstream media

Unprecedented disinformation by omission..
Imagine if they were Israelis?

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I'm not dying on this hill. I'm fit and healthy and ready to engage in future cultural war battles, and I look forward to annoying many more authoritarians, on the left and the right, whatever political, ideological, religious, or cultural groupthink they may adhere to.

I'm not dying on this hill. I'm fit and healthy and ready to engage in future cultural war battles, and I look forward to annoying many more authoritarians, on the left and the right, whatever political, ideological, religious, or cultural groupthink they may adhere to.
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I'll double down. The owner of the land is entitled to evict anyone from their property for any reason, or no good reason. Though, they are not entitled to suppress free speech on their property, whatever the cause. Also, when an event is paid for by a university / private…

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I'm making headlines again, like during Covid. I sense there's a path here to achieve eternal fame.
Let's have a go ...

Guns are unamerican
Cars are unamerican
Cowboy hats are unamerican
Barbecue sauce in unamerican
Boobs are unamerican
Trump is unamerican
...

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I genuinely don't know how to deal with such posts. Analogies and hypotheticals can be useful to support constructive exchange, but there's a point when the exercise becomes so farfetched that it defeats logic.

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This is a - likely unintentionally - interesting post. As the owner of the land, I'm allowed to tell people I disagree with them, as I do on public premises, but owning the land, as far as I'm concerned, gives me no additional right to suppress their freedom to spout nonsense.

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There's something I find intriguing in Western society - I don't know whether it extends to other cultures - namely the propensity of men to advocate for, or justify, the use of physical violence seems largely inversely proportional to their own fitness and physical prowess.

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I would have politely, but firmly, asked the student to leave the party if she couldn't be assuaged, but without manhandling her.
I mean, I could knock her out (and her geriatric aggressor, too) with a single punch, but I would never consider using physical force to deal with a

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