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From: Lawrence Krauss Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 8:09 PM To: Noam Chomsky Cc: jeffrey E.; Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like. Yup. Lawren=e M. Krauss Director, The Origins Pro=ect at ASU Foundation Professor School of Earth 84=Ssace Ex.loration and Ph sics Desartment =s an st le="bac round-color: r ba 255, 255, 255, Sent from my iPhon= On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Noam Chomsky «= href="mailto:c cl wrote: I quite agree. And I'm pr=tty sure Lawrence does too. From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jee=acation@gmail.com> ) Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:02 PM To: Noam Chomsky Cc: Lawrence Krauss <mailto: Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like../p> I think religion plays a major positive role in many I=ves.. i dont like fanaticism on either side.. sorry On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky <chomsky@mit.edu> wro=e: Thanks for sending. A wide area of agreement, bu= not total. EFTA_R1_01609928 EFTA02489448 On confronting dogma, I of course agree — thou=h in my opinion the secular religions — nationalist fanaticism, etc. — are much more dangerous. And if some find r=tional discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academics=find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or =9Clsraeli self-defense" or Obama's mass murder campaign, et=., offensive — so be it. But I don't see why that should extend to ridi=ule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers can refute astrology, while recognizing that perfectly honest and deluded people may b=lieve it and should be treated with respect, while their beliefs are confro=ted with evidence. I also don't see why we should ridicule re=igious dogma, just as I don't think we should ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should r=spond to irrational belief with argument and evidence, while recognizing th=t their advocates (like most of the intellectual world in the case of secul=r dogma) are people who we should be responding to but without ridiculing them. It may be hard sometime=. For example, when the icon and founding father of sober non-sentime=tal Realism in International Affairs informs us that the US, unlike other c=untries, has a "transcendental purpose," and the fact that it constantly acts in contradiction to its purpose doesn =80 t matter because the facts are just "abuse of history"=while real history is "the evidence of history as our minds reflect i=," then it's hard to avoid ridicule. But we should.&n=sp; There's no point ridiculing virtually the entire IR profession a=d the major journals, even though such extraordinary irrationality leads to major=human disasters. On Davis, I frankly think that's a non-issue.&=bsp; If she decides she cannot do her job as the conditions of employment require (including following the law), then she can quit and I=ok for another job. As in any other such case. Noam From: Lawrence Krauss [mailto Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:51 AM To: Noam Chomsky < <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation=gmail.com» Subject: an article you may both hate. or like. h=pe all is well. Lawrence , jeffrey E. http://www.newyorker.com/news/n=ws-desk/all-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists <http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/all-scientists-sh=uld-be-militant-atheists> 2 EFTA_R1_01609929 EFTA02489449 Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department</=:p> <image001.png> please not= The information contained in this communication is constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> , and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved 3 EFTA_R1_01609930 EFTA02489450