Umm…you’re confusing, I believe gratuitously, atheists and or academics with scientists. With the caveat that you claim not to be a scientist, but an ‘academic’…

No, most of the academics I know are scientists. Some are physicians. Me, I’m a clinician that does a moderate amount of research: I’ve got over 50 papers to my name; some are grant funded research, working on transgenic animals and the like. Others are a lot more clinical. My background and training in graduate and undergraduate was evolutionary biology: specifically behavior and ecology, but I took a lot of courses in philosophy of science at McGill. I decided that medicine would be more fun and lucrative.

See, you have a degree in history and philosophy of science that you wave like a flag, but you have no real personal experience in these issues, and you like to talk. You assume you know stuiff about me that you don’t, but its your prejudice talking. So: take your punishment like a man: you don’t know what you are talking about, or who you are talking to, and I wouldn’t have even posted this except I got bored of you telling me what I am.

When I talk about scientists I mean scientists. When I talk about clinicians, I mean clinicians. When I say ‘academic”, its because a lot of people don’t like calling medical researchers “scientists”, so I don’t advertise myself as one. But I work at a University as a full time academic staff.

So: again, thanks for peddling your prejudice, but I’m not buying.