International "Santa survey" uncovers the average age children stop believing: [newatlas.com]
Scroll to the bottom where Richard Dawkins is, incomprehensibly, >for< indoctrinating children with the myth
I don't think he's advocating for it per se, his statement sounds rhetorical / ironic to me.
But then sometimes Richard says things that I either don't agree with or think he should have filters about. Like his remark about his childhood experience of "mild" sexual abuse, and that it wasn't a Big Deal.