How to Argue with a Racist

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How to Argue with a Racist, by Adam Rutherford: Episode 4

Episode 4

How to Argue with a Racist, by Adam Rutherford

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Dr Adam Rutherford deploys science as a weapon against prejudice.

A scientific toolkit to separate fact from myth. Today - how sporting success is often casually attributed to racial stereotypes.

Dr Adam Rutherford offers a scientific toolkit to separate fact from myth in understanding how we are different and how we are the same. 

Today - how the tired tropes that seek to explain the success of black athletes in some fields are evidence of centuries of racist assumptions. 

Adam Rutherford has a PhD in Genetics and a degree in evolutionary biology, is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London and a former audio-video editor at the journal Nature. He is a presenter of BBC Radio 4 's Inside Science and also The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He has also presented several TV documentaries and written regularly for newspapers and journals. He has published several books related to genetics and the origin of life.

Written and read by Dr Adam Rutherford
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

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