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In reply to the discussion: Scientific American: Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More [View all]alarimer
(16,446 posts)But both Dawkins and Krauss, like Hitchens, have some major problems. Dawkins is, quite frankly, as asshole. Especially on Twitter. There is a very large problem in the skeptical movement of sexual harassment, at conventions, and just in general. There have been a number of very public cases of scientists saying or doing things that we would not tolerate in any workplace, for instance, yet Dawkins and Krauss have failed to condemn it and have even gone so far as to support the harassers. Like Michael Shermer, as I mentioned elsewhere.
I personally am done with the "great man" version of science and skepticism; too often it erases the contributions of women and encourages misogynistic behavior.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement?utm_term=.hx5BJ1YXM#.idqx0vE7K