New book on harassment of scientists who doubt Darwin - free chapter available

Biochemist Jerry Bergman has a new book coming out called Slaughter of the Dissidents. Published by Kevin Wirth, it's Bergman's research over many years on scientists who encountered trouble or harassment for doubting Darwin. Not as snazzy as Expelled, i would think, but likely quite informative.

For a limited time, you can get a free chapter here (scroll down).

I got Chapter 18. Here's a brief excerpt:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In past cases involving Darwin skeptics, my research of over 100 cases over the past 30 years indicates that schools typically presented trumped-up and often obviously bogus reasons for dismissal or denial of tenure such as incompetence, erroneous claims that a faculty member falsified documents, or other allegations that were clearly proposed to cover up the real reason—religious discrimination. Several more recent cases have been increasingly open about the rationale for termination; consequently, in these cases it is easier to litigate the actual issues in court. Thus, several cases have been fought openly on freedom of speech and First Amendment grounds. For example, in referring to the Bishop case, University of Chicago law professor Mike McConnell stated: “This is principally a free speech case. It was litigated as a free speech case; it was decided as a free speech case.” (3 )
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

In fact, if you are attempting to provide evidence-based or reason-based critiques of materialist assumptions, you will likely find that there is very little free speech in North American educational institutions today. The only exception is for admittedly irrational views, protected as a sort of exotic species of thought. That is, you we be under less suspicion if you argued that tarot cards are personally meaningful to you on account of your cultural background than if you argued that the universe shows detectible evidence of fine tuning.