A year later Hauser was barred from teaching and eventually resigned. It has been defined by the US National Science Foundation as falsification, fabrication and plagiarism. Scientific misconduct explicitly excludes "honest error or difference of opinion". In 2010, Marc Hauser took a leave of absence from Harvard, after being held solely responsible for eight instances of scientific misconduct. Hauser gets around the rather obvious criticism that even non-believers are en-cultured by religion, by citing research on the Kuna tribe in Central America which had the same results.
You are standing at the points: do you divert the trolley to save the people, killing a man trapped on the siding in the process? Dawkins and Hauser make much of the fact that atheists and believers all had similar responses.
Hauser carried out tests in which he asked people a series of ever more complex "trolley" questions a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. In The God Delusion Dawkins cites experiments carried out by Marc Hauser ( Moral Minds). But are the only things of interest, the only things that constitute reality, 100% testable and knowable? In science things are proven to be true or false, hypotheses can be tested and the truth can be decided. Science has become the sole arbiter of truth. Sometimes, Dawkins really makes me squirm. It seems impossible to be an atheist anymore without signing up to science-worship. At the same time, atheism has collided with dogmatic scientific materialism and hooked up with liberal humanism. I've no idea if there are quantifiably more atheists, but they are much louder and much angrier. Since the publication of The God Delusion, atheism, New Atheism, has been on the up. But you don't need Richard Dawkins to tell you about outrages carried out in the name of religion, just open your eyes and look around the world. Thank you Richard Dawkins, for telling me stuff I already knew but in a much more angry way." Growing up in Northern Ireland, I've been on the wrong side of religious persecution, so there's not a lot I would disagree about in his criticism of religion. "Ah," I thought, as I read Richard Dawkins' polemic, "Yes, yes, you're definitely right about that. In 2007, I dutifully picked up The God Delusion (Transworld, 2006). It's not the first time I've read a book about atheism. I guess it worked, because a few days later I was reading his new book Religion for Atheists (Hamish Hamilton, 2012). What the hell was Alain de Botton doing emailing me? Customer service, it turns out. Is there anything I can do about it?" After the initial shock that a public figure had searched the internet to find my email address, I spent the rest of the day laughing.
The gist: "Siobhan, I'm sorry if I have upset you. Moments later, I had an email from the man himself.
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