Title: Silenced!
Subtitle: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Academic freedom, EDUCATION, Akademische Freiheit, Higher, Civil rights, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 2001-, 2001-2009
LC classification: LC72.2 .J64 2007