Lilian Anekwe, Social media editor for New Scientist, chairing a discussion "How real is race?", on the Engineering Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019

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Lilian is social media editor at New Scientist. She is interested in health, medicine, and - of course - all things social media. With race and identity high on the political agenda, award-winning writer Angela Saini explores the dangerous ways in which scientific racism is re-entering the mainstream, and also the troubling failure of researchers to abandon old-fashioned racial categories when trying to understand human variation. With race and identity high on the political agenda, award-winning writer Angela Saini explores the dangerous ways in which scientific racism is re-entering the mainstream, and also the troubling failure of researchers to abandon old-fashioned racial categories when trying to understand human variation.

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