1. Honest Mistakes or Willful Mendacity

Comment #68153 by jamerg on September 6, 2007 at 8:58 am

Wow. I just listened to the Today Programme was was genuinely scandalised - I can't imagine how Richard felt. Cornwell was simply totally misrepresenting things as RD's opinion (eg. Richard Dawkins thinks that any form of religion is the same as paedophilia). It was really quite breathtaking and I imagine the book to be more of the same.

It's hard to believe that someone who has witten a book rebutting The God Delusion hasn't actually read it, or that Cornwell isn't clever enough to understand it. It seems to me that he must therefore be being outright dishonest.

If I was you, Richard, I'd be taking legal advice re: defamation/slander but I'm a lawyer so that's probably my answer to everything...