lol the way they say "cling to the belief" made me chuckle. Bit
  of a biased article there.. and a little cocky in its certainty.
  But yeah, it's impractical to believe in "there's no free will".
  I suppose I take a compatiblist position ultimately. I don't see
  any real reason for a hard line to be drawn between "there is"
  and "there isn't" because cognitive science can proceed just
  fine with either way of thinking... and there's really not much
  benefit to believing we DON'T have free will, unless one wants
  an excuse for behaving badly. It's the old nature vs nurture
  argument in a different form. "It's my nature! Couldn't help
  myself!" Or for purely nurture: "Momma hit me with a stick!
  Couldn't help myself!" Gotta have a mix. Gotta teach a mix. All
  free will leads to dangers when there IS major brain
  malfunction. All no free will leads to dangers when someone
  knows PERFECTLY WELL they meant to do something but now they
  have a scientifically valid excuse for their behavior. == I
  *wanted* to like Sam Harris. He starts off ok. But then he goes
  into never-never-land in my book and gets all misty-eyed at the
  freedom he suddenly gets by having no free will. I'm like,
  "dude... really?" ==

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