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This is a really scary movement, not only because he's blatantly straw-manning both Dawkins and Darwin, but because he's a populist without proper scientific cr
by goldbrick 11y ago
This is a really scary movement, not only because he's blatantly straw-manning both Dawkins and Darwin, but because he's a populist without proper scientific credentials subtly pushing an agenda -- we could call him the Glenn Beck to Russell Brand's Joe Rogan.
Nobody properly doing science ever suggests that we ever have all the answers and it frightens me that celebrities are so often given a podium of regressive anti-intellectualism on which to challenge the corpus of established scientific knowledge and even to misrepresent it.
- awl130 11y agoI agree with your point and will add that such movements are not isolated to the non-scientific: Dawkin's use of his own public platform to push his own shockingly bad agenda. Which is to say, emotional outbursts of any kind are noise and cancel each other out in time.