<![CDATA[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.]]>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/

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/99221a7c-d20b-4484-b365-fbfdb762a0fc/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.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 07:45:50 GMTTue, 05 May 2026 13:36:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:54:33 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freethought.online/users/hjhornbeck/statuses/116522776878927043https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freethought.online/users/hjhornbeck/statuses/116522776878927043Tue, 05 May 2026 15:54:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:30:22 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/kay/statuses/116522445879463828https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/kay/statuses/116522445879463828Tue, 05 May 2026 14:30:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:25:41 GMT]]>@fraggle @pzmyers I had to look that up. It was absolutely as stupid as it sounds.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mhkohne/statuses/116522427425579347https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mhkohne/statuses/116522427425579347Tue, 05 May 2026 14:25:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:17:11 GMT]]>@pzmyers the clock truther episode was over 10 years ago

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/fraggle/statuses/116522394022874653https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/fraggle/statuses/116522394022874653Tue, 05 May 2026 14:17:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:10:41 GMT]]>@pzmyers Yes. Yes, you have.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Axomamma/statuses/116522368479128674https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Axomamma/statuses/116522368479128674Tue, 05 May 2026 14:10:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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. on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:37:50 GMT]]>Or maybe he's always been this way, and I've just been projecting an illusion of intelligence on him?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freethought.online/users/pzmyers/statuses/116522239279698138https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freethought.online/users/pzmyers/statuses/116522239279698138Tue, 05 May 2026 13:37:50 GMT