The Enemies of Reason

Good to see that Richard Dawkins’ latest series Enemies of Reason is available via Google Video already.

 

The opening minute already had a laugh out loud moment for me as the camera panned across a roomful of people chanting and coming to rest on Dawkins sitting with a bemused expression on his face. Truly the epitome of the old "your intrepid reporter made his excuses and left" moment. 

 

And then there is the sight of Neil Spencer, the Observer’s Astrologer (oh, how a once mighty newspaper has fallen) refusing to accept that a scientific experiment to test the accuracy of astrology is anything other than mischief. No wonder he penned a cri de coeur in the Observer last Sunday. Of course, that still didn’t make it anything other than nonsense, but then what did I expect?

 

And as for Satish Kumar, well, I’m sorry, but he must be the living proof of the danger of having too open a mind is that your brain falls out.