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Windbag. Famous for The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and others. Friends with the late Daniel Dennett. Completely misunderstands Thomas Kuhn.

Do say:

“Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I’ll show you a hypocrite”.

“Show me a Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science who is not prepared to jump off the Eiger in a wingsuit, and I’ll show you a hypocrite”.

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