Chapeau!

Serious answer would be that I admire him for a lot of what he has written but his recent political thoughts, whilest not negating what he has done before, are too egregious to go unmentioned and would disqualify him from any list of people I'd take my hat off to. And his personality, like Dawkins', is self-picketing.

Well, we must disagree.

I will ignore your personality criticism of Dawkins as I have no clue what 'self-picketing' might mean.