Claim: Black scientists hold only 3.5% of professor posts.
Fact-check: MailOnline muddles professorship ethnicity figures - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. in 2018/19 black academics held just 0.5% of stem professor posts, but 3.5% of black stem academic staff were professors.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-10-12T00:00:00