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and do as you need to. while we only have the fundamentalist religious right to deal with – at least so far they’ve not killed anyone over a cartoon – some of the soundbites from the religious right differ only in a matter of degrees from the imams. While science has its share of frauds and scoundrels it does tend to be self correcting – at least in the hard sciences (ones where you can measure and test), although it may take a while. Religious fundamentalism of any sort is dangerous to thinking.