Cattily, I observed that for someone who made such a loud noise about science, Richard Dawkins didn't seem to do very much of it any more, so I went to his web site to look for his list of publications, expecting a torrent of interesting and worthwhile stuff in the late sixties and early seventies and the occasional invited review ever since.

I found something rather more disturbing. The 1970s papers, called things like "Some descriptive and explanatory stochastic models of decision-making", are lumped together with recent opinion pieces like "Lions 10, Christians Nil", "Putting away childish things", "Religion's Real Child Abuse" and "Atheists for Jesus".

It's as if whoever put together the CV can't tell the difference.

The last entry looks promisingly scientific. "An Ecology of Replicators", appears in Ludus Vitalis. "ludus vitalis" "impact factor" is a Googlewhack.

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