Yes, that’s me standing next to him – and yes, I knew it was misquoted. Good to have visual evidence. Full post at Young Australian Skeptics:
Reporting on the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, Barney Zwartz & Jacqueline Maley, in their respective articles “Dawkins delivers the sermon they came to hear” (The Age, 15/3/10) and “Dawkins derides sainthood as Pythonesque” (SHM, 15/3/10) both misquoted evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, which has resulted in a misunderstanding being propagated throughout the entire Australian media at the detriment of Richard Dawkins’ name.
…Blatantly evident in this clip, Richard Dawkins uses “Pope Nazi” as a shorthand descriptive phrase for “that Pope whose name I’ve forgotten (Pope Pius XII) —who’s also up for canonisation and was aiding and abetting the Nazis during the war”. See below. Not Pope Benedict.
Richard Dawkins from Young Australian Skeptics on Vimeo.
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Dawkins is definitely owed an apology. He’ll never get one, of course. We’re unlikely even to see any sort of retractions.
Jason has mentioned on FB that Jacqueline Maley apparently was the one asking the question about McKillop in the first place.Now, that’s shitstirring at its finest, and it’s good to hear that Mediawatch is apparently looking into it.
Wow. If that’s the case… I don’t even have the words for it. Wow.
You can always trust the corporate media to put a spin on things. Normally the spin travels in the direction of profit.
Situations like this only highlight the importance of independent blogs and podcasts.
It’s certainly a topic that has been raging in terms of Science Blogs? I have been keeping an eye on Bora of ‘Blog Around The Clock’ and the debate on whether online independent media is trustworthy.
I would also suggest listening to Andrew Revkin on Point of Inquiry, one of the more recent eps on that podcast?
What you can read of my experience is featured in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/31/sciencenews.blogging
and the case of the Goldacre being silenced by Jeni Barnett and how we transcribed the radio show: http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/legal-chill-from-lbc-973-over-jeni-barnetts-mmr-scaremongering/
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