Reply #20: Mooney isn't a particularly reliable guy.

[JoeyT]

I take anything about science with a grain of salt when it's coming from a Templeton Fellow, since the Templeton Foundation exists solely to pollute science at every turn. He also tends to pitch a hissy fit any time he thinks anyone is overly critical of religion.

It's why I say he's unhelpful in countering the anti-science attitudes the right pushes, since those attitudes are steeped so heavily in religion. In any argument between a creationist insisting children be taught a 6000 year old earth and an atheist insisting that it isn't science and it's stupid to boot, Mooney will chide the atheist for being too mean.