Peer Pressure from Scientific Fundamentalists?

Source	http://unfoldingscience.blogspot.com/2012/12/peer-pressure-from-scientific.html
Author	Julia Mossbridge
Published	2012-12-27, 06:40 PM
Summary	I was impressed to read this morning that Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, had publicly criticized Richard Dawkins for his anti-religious "fundamentalism" ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/26/peter-higgs-richard-dawkins-fundamentalism ). One of his points is that fundamentalism -- belief in anything that cannot be changed by data -- is an anti-scientific position, even if the belief held so strongly is belief in the superiority of
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