{"id":10377,"date":"2010-10-24T18:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10377"},"modified":"2010-10-24T18:11:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:11:16","slug":"richard-dawkins-sues-an-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-sues-an-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins sues an employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2010\/10\/22\/31283.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GLENDALE, Calif. (CN) &#8211; Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his Foundation for Reason and Science embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins&#8217; charity, by claiming it made only $30,000 in 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins says he founded the charity to &#8220;support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and human suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins hired Josh Timonen in 2006 to run his website and produce videos for him, according to the Superior Court complaint. Timonen began working for the Foundation in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we can see, <em>scientific education, critical thinking <\/em>and<em> evidence-based understanding of the natural world <\/em>doesn\u2019t make a person honest. And why would it? If the employee\u2019s <em>critical thinking <\/em>led him to conclude that he would get away with it, pilfering $375k would be a satisfying example of the fittest acquiring the means to improve his likelihood of survival.<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins should be able to see that and is just being an old meany-pants for suing Timonen instead of applauding his Darwin inspired initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: GLENDALE, Calif. (CN) &#8211; Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his Foundation for Reason and Science embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins&#8217; charity, by claiming it made only $30,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-sues-an-employee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[959,2238],"class_list":["post-10377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-josh-timonen","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}