| > he always ranked reasonably high in educated circles Unless someone was educated in philosophy of religion, for example. > and his books were very popular. Hard to deny. I have a beef with pop-science in general, but nothing particularly bad about his books on evolution. > But my goodness, the buckets of crap that get poured on him nowadays, in stark contrast with even 10 years ago. Parent comment is an exhibit. My comment is not exhibit - I poured crap on him more than even 10 years ago, when he was one of the Four Horsemen (and I poured crap on other three as well), and generally celebrated. I was there before it was fashionable. > I am 99% convinced that it's because Dawkins ended up on some "anti hate" group target list, after he said things in 2021 that the trans movement found offensive. Couldn't care less about trans movement or Dawkins opinion on gender issues. |