"A scientist looking at nonscientific problems,'' said the great
physicist Richard Feynman, "is just as dumb as the next guy.'' That's
not necessarily anyone else's concern -- unless the scientist in
question is claiming to speak, with scientific authority, for the rest of us.
A fresh case in point is this analysis by Oxford's Richard Dawkins, from
an interview published earlier this month in Britain's Guardian (see
the sixth paragraph). As part of his ongoing campaign to get "downtrodden,''
apologetic atheists stand up...
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