Skeptics I no longer have any respect for.

[Sciwoman]

What a bunch of ridiculous reasons not to like Richard Dawkins. haha

Do you care to expand upon that?

Despite other good things Dawkins has done/said you're going to stop liking/respecting the guy because he shut down a forum? I can take it or leave it on this one if you felt strongly about it.. but your second reason for not respecting him is because you happen to think his book wasn't well written philosophically after you read more books, well woop dee doo honestly...is that seriously a reason? it sounds petty and ridiculous. If you actually have a good reason to stop respecting Dawkins maybe you'd want to expand on that yourself because a forum (of his right?) and a style of writing being your reasons aren't good enough reasons in my eyes, not that my eyes matter but you asked me to expand. Wouldn't you say the things he's done have far outshined the things you seem to have issues with?

You missed the point. I never said he couldn't do what he liked with the forum. My point was that he seems to be unable to connect with people outside of the ivory tower of academia. He actually could not understand why people were upset with the way it was handled by Josh - the slowing down of the loading time of the forum, turning off PM's so people could not contact each other, the random deletion of users and threads, the outright lies Josh told RD about the forum. One of my friends who had been on staff sent him an email - Dawkins was far more concerned about a misplaced apostrophe in his name than he was about any of the concerns my friend was trying to bring to his attention. I don't dislike Dawkins, I just don't think he can relate to those who are not within academia's ivory tower, hence my loss of some of my respect for him. Hitchens would share a drink with you at the pub. Dawkins is better off staying behind a podium and talking to you from the pages of a book.