Comments on: The Dawkins Delusion

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:24:34 +0000

In what way is Dawkins unethical. He’s not actually “doing” science when he writes his books, he’s communicating his thoughts and interpretations of reality and positing opinions, we have freedom of speech in most of the developed world, right. Contrast that with the nature of the attempted proselytisations made in the name of fundamental philosophies.

By the way, Dawkins isn’t mentioned on that QuicheMoraine page you mentioned or did I miss it…?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:08:09 +0000

Is Richard Dawkins unethical? (Because of the way he frames his argument?) Interesting discussion going on here.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:30 +0000

I knew someone would’ve used that title already ;-)

By: Robin Forder

Robin Forder — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:05:20 +0000

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! There is actually a book of the same title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawkins_Delusion?. I can’t guarantee you’ll like it, though.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:59:21 +0000

Oh, yes, it’s definitely a possible fraud and “passing off” to cybersquat, at least in the UK, and presumably the US. Although if you don’t actually make any claims about actually being the person…

If it was @Coca_Cola, and they were a Pepsi affiliate it would be even more obvious than the fake Dawkins tweets, of course.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:45 +0000

It hadn’t occurred to me that impersonating a celebrity could in fact be lucrative until you gave the details of this one. I suppose that it isn’t strictly illegal and so I imagine it will continue. I think I will make it a rule to only follow non-celebs from now on (Stephen Fry excepted.)

By: Andrew Sun

Andrew Sun — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:03:02 +0000

I was followed by Brad Pitt.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:59:45 +0000

The Dawkins Delusion: On sibling site Sciencetext.com I talk tech, which often includes warning people about spa.. http://tr.im/hZbB

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:53:44 +0000

We certainly need to out the impostors otherwise Twitter will become worthless as more and more spoof celebs start spamming the system.

By: Andrew Maynard

Andrew Maynard — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:32:43 +0000

Thanks David,

Great follow-through on the Twitter conversation. While the fake posts didn’t seem to be malicious in any way, the more that can be done to “out” misleading impostors, the better methinks!