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Back to EpisodesRichard Dawkins & Brendan O'Connor: The Rights, the Wrongs and What We All Assume || SLP362
Published 4 years, 11 months ago
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Recently Richard Dawkins went on Brendan O'Connor's radio show on RTE, Ireland. https://www.rte.ie/radio1/brendan-oco...
The 20 minute interview has become famous for the way the conversation developed towards the end. But here Glen Scrivener and Paul Feesey discuss the entirety of the conversation which ranged over some fascinating terrain.
They discuss the assumptions behind Richard Dawkins' now infamous "Abort it and try again" statement from 2014 and the way so much discussion of the controversy misses vital points.