It's a trap! Someone is trying to make Richard Dawkins' head explode!
Harper's Magazine (June 2011, last page), or so I have just been informed, reports that "Existential anxiety was found to make people dislike Richard Dawkins."
Should I feel flattered, hurt, or existentially anxious? If the latter, will I get caught in an escalating positive feedback loop?
That's dirty pool, trying to off Dawkins with a Logic Bomb.
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