Creative intellectuals from UK, US could make NZ new AthensDon Arnold World renowned scientist Richard Dawkins says Brexit and Trump are terrible for science. Author and militant atheist Richard Dawkins has penned a letter urging New Zealand to welcome foreign intellectuals. In a post-Brexit, post-US election world, scientists and creative intellectuals would be desperate to escape the "redneck bigotry" of their home countries, Dawkins wrote in a letter published in the Scientific American. "There are top scientists in America and Britain—talented, creative people, desperate to escape the redneck bigotry of their home countries. "The contribution that creative intellectuals can make to the prosperity and cultural life of a nation is out of all proportion to their numbers.

Source: Stuff November 11, 2016 00:10 UTC