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$\"\"$ <\/a>I\u2019ve gotten quite a number of visitors today from the Richard Dawkins Foundation web site, via a repost there of my recent blog entry about Miley Cyrus, and her tweet of a paraphrase of something Laurence Krauss said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The byline of the repost there says \u201cJames McGrath \u2013 Friendly Atheist.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure whether someone has mistaken me for Hemant Mehta, or felt the need to indicate that the post<\/a> was written by me without him (construing the dash as a minus sign).<\/p>\n

Several commenters there note this oddity too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts on this? Any plausible or ludicrous but entertaining explanations of what is going on with this?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"