Edinburgh invoked a committee of eminent historians to consider the Dundas question but agreed the wording for a new plaque proposed by a black retired professor of Life Sciences, Geoff Palmer, who has no professional expertise on Dundas, slavery or Scottish history. Historians point out the wording is factually incorrect but the council is standing its ground. Palmer's hyperbolic hysteria is sadly representative of so much black input at the moment: when, apparently, a woman made a casual comment before a lecture he was to give that she hadn't realised he was the professor Palmer concluded this was an example of pervasive White racism and (quote) "A knee on my neck". These people really should give it a rest.