Matthew Cobb: It doesn’t seem to be true! It is all over the internet, but tellingly with no link or screenshot of headline… Checked, and there is no mention of DCH in Daily Mail before 1965 and her OM! Did find these though. Will find where they appeared.

Philip Ball philipcball.bsky.social · Feb 4
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It doesn’t seem to be true! It is all over the internet, but tellingly with no link or screenshot of headline… Checked, and there is no mention of DCH in Daily Mail before 1965 and her OM! Did find these though. Will find where they appeared.
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Roland Pease peaseroland.bsky.social · Feb 4
Oxford Mail was the version repeated to me just this past week (by an Oxford academic)

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Roland Pease peaseroland.bsky.social · Feb 4
Jim Lathwaite ex of the Daily Mail (and coiner of Loch Ness Monster, no less) could the author of the first www.theguardian.com/media/greens...
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James McConnachie jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · Feb 4
(Thank you. It triggered my scepticism antennae too.) The other cool thing about the story is that she was in Ghana when she heard the news - travelling with her husband who was an advisor to Kwame Nkrumah!

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