I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I guess music particularly the blues is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.