The author and academic argues that workless people breed children with job-resistant traitsAdam Perkins’s book,The Welfare Trait, was published in December to little fanfare and barely reviewed. But final month, and after a talk the lecturer in the neurobiology of personality was due to give at the London School of Economics was cancelled,Perkins’s arguments occupy provoked a small-scale media storm.
Several disability groups planned a peaceful protest before the talk, after which they planned to listen to Perkins’s speech and engage in debate with him. Perkins claimed he had been “no-platformed”, and while the Daily Mail and the Spectator said he had been silenced for “daring to tell the truth” approximately the welfare state.
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Source: theguardian.com