Resident Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Oxford university have launched a study, funded by the tax payer. The aim of the study? To determine whether MILK is racist ...... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/22/academic-project-to-research-milk-and-colonialism-links/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Author looks like a nasty little troll, going by his previous articles https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/cp-ct/craig-simpson/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_999uk Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 1 minute ago, alchresearch said: Author looks like a nasty little troll, going by his previous articles https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/cp-ct/craig-simpson/ It's an essential requirement to work for this rag, along with framing stories in such a way as to trigger the usual snowflakes into their daily rage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotequila Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Of course milk is racist... why else would it be white? 🙄 That was sarcasm, just in case anyone wants to report the post 😆 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 I know I should take these 'research projects' with a large pinch of something, but this sounds like someone high on an illegal substance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_DADDY Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 If milk is racist does that mean chocolate milk is racist too? Or is chocolate milk cultural appropriation? I'm so confused right now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 They should investigate a Bounty bar . That would confuse them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 33 minutes ago, RollingJ said: I know I should take these 'research projects' with a large pinch of something, but this sounds like someone high on an illegal substance. Only if you consider the issue from the way it's presented by those trying to generate a clickbaity reaction. Note how there's no link to the research and about a third of the text describes one of the researchers taking part in a talk as part of a Welcome Trust presentation in 2022 (no link to that either). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_terrier Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Is this an attempt at getting an Ig Nobel prize? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 5 minutes ago, altus said: Only if you consider the issue from the way it's presented by those trying to generate a clickbaity reaction. Note how there's no link to the research and about a third of the text describes one of the researchers taking part in a talk as part of a Welcome Trust presentation in 2022 (no link to that either). I'm not reacting to the 'clickbait' - merely to the reported comments of the 'researchers', which appear to be, shall we say, 'out of this world', and to put it mildly, slightly worrying, if these people are scientists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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