Is reality unreasonable?

THE ENEMIES of Reason, a TV series by Richard Dawkins, is being shown by Channel 4.

Its theme is a familiar Dawkins one; that superstition and irrational beliefs should be rooted out and banished from our psyches. A previous series targeted organised religion, Marx’s “opium to the people” and Freud’s universal neurosis, which, Dawkins believes, brings all manner of ills in its train.

Now astrologers, water-diviners and purveyors of alternative medicine are being hammered.