Inverted fundamentalism of non-religious

Fr Joe Inguanez (The Sunday Times, January 2) makes reference to “inverted fundamentalism”, which holds that only the non-religious can do proper ‘empirical research’. This calls to mind the following salutary observation by David Sloan Wilson (an atheist, but not of the fundamentalist variety) in his book Evolution for Everyone (2007, p. 269

“It is humbling to contemplate that the concerns typically voiced about religion need to be extended to virtually all forms of human thought. If anything, non-religious belief systems are a greater cause for concern because they do a better job of masquerading as factual reality.”