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sandwalk.blogspot.com - 7/27/2009

The Richard Dawkins Award Goes to Bill Maher

— sandwalk.blogspot.com — Atheist Alliance International is an organization that gives out The Richard Dawkins Award each year. The criteria,... according to Wikipedia are ...The Richard Dawkins Award will be given every year to honor an outstanding atheist whose contributions ... (more) The Richard Dawkins Award Goes to Bill Maher

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scienceblogs.com - 7/23/2009

Put Maher in the hot seat

— scienceblogs.com — Some people are quite rightly appalled that Bill Maher won the Richard Dawkins Award from AAI, and... is at the top of the list of speakers at the AAI conference . I sympathize; Maher certainly has some wacky ideas, and I even gave him a mixed review on ... (more) Put Maher in the hot seat

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The Richard Dawkins Award Goes to Bill Maher
Sandwalk — ... and whose public posture mirrors the uncompromising nontheist life stance of Dr. Richard Dawkins. This year the award goes to Bill Maher. One assumes that he is the man who best exemplifies the criteria for the award. Does Bill Maher advocate increased scientific knowledge and does his public posture resemble that of Richard Dawkins? Not bloody likely. As Orac and others have pointed out, Maher believes in all sorts of kooky ideas including the idea that vaccinations don't work [ Bill Maher gets the Richard Dawkins Award? That's like Jenny McCarthy getting an award for public ...

Bill Maher endorses cancer quackery
Science-Based Medicine — ... , and now his belief in cancer quackery shown in the video clip above. It wouldn’t have mattered on iota to me if the AAI had chosen to give Maher a “best atheist movie” award or some sort of activism award. But it didn’t. It chose to give Maher and award, one of the criteria of which involves advocating “increased scientific knowledge,” and that irritated me mightily. I even realize that my expressing just how disappointed I was in Richard Dawkins’ nonchalant, “he’s anti-religion; I don’t know about his views on ...

Pseudo-expertise versus science-based medicine
Science-Based Medicine — ... , even though one of the criteria for the award was that its recipient must “through writings, media, the arts, film, and/or the stage advocates increased scientific knowledge.” It only mattered later, when complaints about the selection started to ...