Anyone ever heard of Paul Vitz?

[Tiberius]

I'm not talking about his personal beliefs. He is teaching that atheists are the way they are because of fatherlessness. And he cites his own so-called research when he makes the claim. He has written at least one book on it, and goes on religious lecture tours promoting this nonsense. He is promoting it as a scientific fact. And the religious right is eating it up. He promotes atheism as a form of mental illness.

Right, and my point was, you shouldn't deny tenure for something like that when they also do valuable research in other areas. Plenty of scientists believe and promote unscientific things; we don't deny the tenure, so why this guy? Simply because he's mistaken about atheism?