Are popular scientists becoming modern day preachers?
There’sa really grumbly postover at The Guardian by Eliane Glaser in which she complain about all the flowery and inflated language being used by so many high visibility scientist today . But more than that , Glaser is claiming that these popularizers of science , many of whom are avowed atheists , are using the figure of religion to get their peak across — something Glaser says is both contradictory and potentially harmful to science itself ....