Your civic re-shelving duty.
Callooh! Callay! Pharygula points out today a biologist on a mission. Go check him out, you have to love his cause. His first post explains: I'm not sure if you've noticed, but some bookstores seem to have a little problem discerning science from non-science. I'm specifically talking about biology books vs. creationist books. Sometimes, you will find psuedo-scientific rubbish such as "intelligent design" books next to such authors as Darwin, Mayr, Gould, et al...
Thank you, Ste. You just made my day.
...Realise just how successful creationism has been in blurring the lines of what science actually is in the public's eye. So successful, in fact, that books whose main argument is that "God did it" enjoy shelf-space with some of the finest minds ever to grace humanity.
This is unacceptable, and something must be done...
...It is my mission to correctly re-shelve books to the appropriate section of the bookstore.
For example, "Darwin's Black Box", the famous psuedo-science book by the non-evolutionary non-scientist Michael Behe, should not be in the "Evolutionary Biology" section, but something more appropriate, such as "New Age", "Religion", "Christianity", or even "Fiction". You get the idea.
I call on all readers of this blog to follow my example. Help your local bookstore correctly stock their science section. Spread the word.
via Pharyngula
2 comments:
As usual, the scientific community falsely believes that their ultimate intelligence trumps everything including common decency and common sense.
If [fill in the name of any major store or book retailer] want to books about creation next to Darwin or any other evolutionist writer, that is their right in what business practices or marketing techniques they choose to use in their business models or store locations. People who choose to rearrange a store’s inventory to meet their own personal tastes, should, and can, be charged with vagrancy.
People who choose to rearrange a store’s inventory to meet their own personal tastes, should, and can, be charged with vagrancy.
Perhaps. But they're sure amusing ;)
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