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crl-15916	Harger, Elaine	Johansen, Bruce E. Silenced: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment Under Siege in America. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. 185p. alk. paper, $49.95 (ISBN 0275996867). LC 2007-8456.	2008	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1795	62	50	Johansen focuses chapter 1, “Weather Wars: Hard Science and Hardball Poli- tics,” on the world of James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science and a true (and truth- ful) expert on climate change. Johansen refers to some recent polls that indicate the extent of ignorance regarding basic science among the general public: …polls indicated that only about 40 percent of U.S. citizens subscribed to the theory of evolution, about 20 percent insisted that the sun revolved around the Earth, one- half believed that human beings coexisted with dinosaurs… Of particular interest in this chapter are Johansen’s descriptions of the dispo- sition of many people toward relativistic thinking, which posits that “everybody has a view, and all are equally valid”; academia’s unwillingness in many cases to protect teachers from attack by zeal- ous creationists; the phenomena of “closet creationists” who teach science in our public schools; and proposals that religious belief and text enter into education not through the door of the science classroom, but through those of history and literature where they more properly belong.	cache/crl-15916.pdf	txt/crl-15916.txt