The journal, that is, not the environment.

Sam Harris – neuroscientist, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, and esteemed godbothererbotherer – says scientists should unite against the threat from religion.

Nature recently published a piece by “Professor of Postcolonial Studies” Ziauddin Sardar on Islam’s “intrinsically rational world view”. In his letter of reply Harris concludes:

“At a time when Muslim doctors and engineers stand accused of attempting atrocities in the expectation of supernatural reward, when the Catholic Church still preaches the sinfulness of condom use in villages devastated by AIDS, when the president of the United States repeatedly vetoes the most promising medical research for religious reasons, much depends on the scientific community presenting a united front against the forces of unreason.

“There are bridges and there are gangplanks, and it is the business of journals such as Nature to know the difference.”

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