[ExI] goats and gullibility

[Damien Broderick]

On 1/27/2010 2:33 AM, Dwayne wrote:

> Funny, damien, I thought you'd be a hard-core sceptic. This is good to see.

I *am* a hard core skeptic. That's why I read the evidence and try to 
contact the people involved in extreme claims before shutting my mind down.

It's interesting to see how the woo-woo believers respond to my book 
OUTSIDE THE GATES OF SCIENCE. For example, one guy blathers on Amazon:

"...no denial of his ultra-materialistic Weltanschauung. This species of 
materialist is familiar - the sort whose reading list is coincident with 
the reccomendations of conservative rags: Dennet, Dawkins and other 
dawks. Amazing how sometimes the most outlandishly imaginative SF 
writers are dull as dishwater when it comes to the truly fantastic. 
DOuglas Adams was a case in point - his adulation of Dawkins and rabid 
anti-mysticism, as in 'last chance to see' stood in stark contrast to 
his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So too with this SF writer turned 
pop science author."

Guess I must be doing something right...

Damien Broderick