Here's a debunking of the rape manual claim:https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1182684990741602305 …
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Worth noting at the time he gave this talk he'd already had his misunderstanding of the "rape manual" comment pointed out to him in a letter to Nature. That doesn't stop him from repeating the lie, though.https://www.nature.com/articles/24973
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How many different ways can Dawkins misunderstand this one book?https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1204023675026124801 …
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For the benefit of the initiated, Dawkins' chortling at the word "privilege" is funny because he clearly thinks it's an example of gender studies intrusion into physics. In reality calling certain reference frames or speeds as "privileged" is part of the terminology of relativity
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"the speed of light [is] privilege[d] over other speeds" is essentially Einstein's second postulate.
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Appeal to ridicule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule …
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Ironic that biologist-turned-social-critic Dawkins is criticizing people for speaking far outside of their field of expertise.
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I liked Dawkins more when he talked about evolution and wasn't an overt misogynist. He's doing no one any favours now, and effectively split a whole community because of it
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