Last year, I replied to Sam Harris's online critique of Unscientific America. More recently, I heard from two separate people that a similar critique appears in his new book, The Moral Landscape. It's the anthropocene: Stuff gets around. I haven't read the new book yet, but I leafed through it over the weekend and found the two pages or so that discuss us. It's essentially the same critique we answered before, and in a way that to my mind still reads as well composed and representative of what I think. So rather than writing a new response--or trying to quote directly from a book I don't have in hand yet--let me give an example of what Harris said before, and how we responded. For instance, Harris wrote the following:
While it is invariably advertised as an expression of “respect” for people of faith, this accommodationism is nothing more than naked ...
