Dominic Cummings ‘weirdos’ recruitment drive leads to Downing Street hiring a man who compared women’s sport to paralympics Andrew Sabisky also argued it would be worth prescribing a stimulant drug to everyone – even at the cost of a child’s life

Downing Street has hired an adviser who compared women’s sport to the paralympics as part of Dominic Cummings’ hiring drive for “misfits and weirdos”.

In one tweet, seen by The Times, Andrew Sabisky, a writer and researcher who calls himself as a “super-forecaster” said: “I am always straight up in saying that women’s sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men’s.”

According to the paper, the researcher also deleted tweets mocking people for “wetting themselves” over female Labour politicians including Yvette Cooper, Angela Rayner and Rebecca Long Bailey, all of whom he dismissed as “dim”.

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Modafinil for all

Mr Sabisky also argued that it would be worth giving everyone modafinil – a stimulant drug used to tackle a variety of sleep disorders – even at the cost of a child’s life.

In a 2016 interview with School’s Weekly he said: “From a societal perspective the benefits of giving everyone modafinil once a week are probably worth a dead kid once a year.”

Modafinil is said to cut the need for sleep in healthy people by two-thirds and appears to boost memory function.

This has led to a lot of people using it when they are studying – but the drug has also been linked to Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a life-threatening condition for children,

In the same interview Mr Sabisky also suggested that intelligence is hereditary, adding: “Eugenics are about selecting ‘for’ good things. Intelligence is largely inherited and correlates with better outcomes: physical health, income, lower mental illness.”

‘Bossing the Prime Minister around’

A source told The Times that Mr Sabisky has already made an impression in Downing Street, describing him as “incredibly cocky” and adding that he “isn’t afraid of telling everyone what he thinks, however senior they are”.

Another source added: “Nobody knows if he has clearance but has been bossing the prime minister around already.”

No 10 told the paper that Mr Sabisky was not part of the team of permanent advisers but rather a contractor working on specifics projects.

i has approached Downing Street for a comment.

It comes just a month after Boris Johnson’s top adviser launched an appeal for “weirdos and misfits” to apply for new jobs within No 10.

In an extraordinary blog post, which put him at odds with traditional civil service’s recruitment methods, Mr Cummings added that he wanted “true wild cards” to email him directly if they believed they were up to the job.

He reportedly received thousands of applications from university professors to Pret a Manger workers – all offering themselves up as a unique perspective missing from the government machine.