I would appreciate it if everyone on the internet would stop talking about Richard Dawkins so that I don't have to see what an embarrassing gormless twit he has become.

[pzmyers@freethought.online]

I would appreciate it if everyone on the internet would stop talking about Richard Dawkins so that I don't have to see what an embarrassing gormless twit he has become. Thank you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/05/oh-goddawkins-said-what-now/

[pzmyers@freethought.online]

Or maybe he's always been this way, and I've just been projecting an illusion of intelligence on him?

[axomamma@mastodon.online]

@pzmyers Yes. Yes, you have.

[fraggle@social.coop]

@pzmyers the clock truther episode was over 10 years ago

[mhkohne@mastodon.social]

@fraggle @pzmyers I had to look that up. It was absolutely as stupid as it sounds.

[kay@meow.social]

@pzmyers Dawkins needs to read some John Searle.

The weirdest part to me is his instinct to prescribe genders to his robot. I guess it's nice he's cool with having a trans LLM?

[hjhornbeck@freethought.online]

@pzmyers
This is the same guy who was into Evolutionary Psychology back when it was called Sociobiology, and was railing about postmodernism and campus cancel culture in the 90's. He's always had a political bias that's shaped his scientific views, but he was also a high-profile science communicator who was decent with a pen. We didn't give him much scrutiny, as a result.