Plan for Dalai Lama lecture angers neuroscientists

Here's a great quote:

Jianguo Gu, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida who has helped to organise a petition against the Dalai Lama's lecture, said: "I don't think it's appropriate to have a prominent religious leader at a scientific event. "The Dalai Lama basically says the body and mind can be separated and passed to other people. There are no scientific grounds for that. We'll be talking about cells and molecules and he's going to talk about something that isn't there.

Ok, the mind body separation stuff might concern them, but look at the start of the quote. In his mind, it's just plain wrong to listen to religion in the context of science. Even though the Dalai Lama is basically science-friendly. I think his position is very unscientific. Religions, like scientific theories, may have pieces that are right and pieces that are wrong. They are not incompatible with science altogether.