They have been found to be
less agonistic towards conspecifics than non-commensal house mice [43] and to have shorter skulls than non-commensal conspecifics [44,45]-- as predicted by the «domestication syndrome» hypothesis [5,6].
That is a very different sort of smear, of a type that New Labour has in my view tended to favour over the years and one that has become, I think, more common on all sides as political debate has become
less and
less philosophically
agonistic and more and more about branding.