The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution

It further propagates the stereotype that religion and science have to conflict! This is called the conflict narrative and work shows that it is harmful to science communication efforts: https://t.co/EAwlAMuWAn 4/9

"Binary logistic regression analysis shows that among Muslim and Pentecostal Christian publics, those familiar with Dawkins as both a scientist and as someone who holds negative views of religion are more likely to have become less accepting of evolution"

The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics & changed attitudes to evolution “among religious publics, those familiar with Dawkins were more likely to become less accepting of evolution; among non-religious, w/ becoming more accept

A nice study.