Silenced!
Subtitle: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780275996864
Subjects: Freedom of information & freedom of speech; Higher & further education; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Censorship; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Political Science / Government / National; Government - National; 2001-; Academic freedom; Politics and government; United States
Description: "This book is about people whose ideological circumstances have found them opposing established beliefs in our times - scholars advocating the Palestinian cause in a very hostile environment, for example, as well as climate scientists defending themselves against the de-funding of their laboratories by defenders of fossil-fuel interests; opponents of "creation science" under assault for teaching what once was regarded as household-variety biology (a.k.a. Darwinism); Marxists in a political system dominated by neoconservatives. The central thesis that unites this diverse array of controversies is that shutting down free inquiry - most notably for points of view deemed unpopular - "dumbs" us all down by restraining the search for knowledge, which demands open inquiry."--Jacket.