Hello and this is the show for you.

I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kishin.

And this is the show for you.

If you're bored with people arguing on the internet

hover subjects they know nothing about. Trigonometry we don't pretend to be

the experts we ask the experts. Our brilliant guest this week is a controversial sociologist who's suing his Cambridge

College for dismissing him after a controversy.

So now, Carl, welcome to Trigonometry.

Good to be here.

I have made that really sound really exciting.

I don't know how exciting it is, but

welcome to the show.

For anyone who doesn't know you, just tell everybody who you are,

how are you where you are,

a little bit about the story that I just mentioned.

So I'm a sociologist who graduated from a PhD at Oxford a couple of years ago and I am interested in a variety of different subjects, Brexit, European Union, political attitudes, psychometrics, personality, evolution.

And I came to prominence, at least to a small extent, following a controversy after my appointment at St. Edmonds College, Cambridge, which occurred in the autumn of 2018.

Basically, some students and academics made a series of complaints to the college about me.

These complaints were not trivial.

They alleged that I was a racist pseudo-scientist and they called for a

investigation into my appointment at the college. An investigation was undertaken and five months later I was dismissed from my role at the college and made unemployed.

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