Biologists Helping Bookstores

Posted on July 21, 2007 by | 10 Comments

Ha! Check out this brand-new blog! Ste is going to bookstores, checking out the Science section and moving pseudo-science, anti-science and nonsense books from it to the New Age section. Just a couple of Behe books in the La Jolla Bookstar, but I bet there will be more egregious miscategorizations in other stores. I wonder if this practice will spread virally to other cities and towns of the world…
(Hat-tip: Reed)

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10 Responses to Biologists Helping Bookstores

  1. resonance | July 21, 2007 at 4:38 pm |

    That’s one of the awesomest things I’ve ever heard of. I should go do that.

  2. Susan B. | July 21, 2007 at 6:49 pm |

    I’m so proud of myself–I discovered Behe’s new book in the science section of my local bookstore, and buried it in an obscure corner where it probably won’t be found for a while.

  3. Matteo | July 21, 2007 at 9:42 pm |

    If all else fails, censorship is definitely the way to go.

  4. Mario Pineda-Krch | July 21, 2007 at 10:54 pm |

    This is brilliant in it’s simplicity. This is civil disobedience at its best. Thoreau & Darwin would have been proud.

  5. coturnix | July 21, 2007 at 11:10 pm |

    Censorship? No, just putting the book where it belongs. It is an improvement on book classification and makes the bookstore better.

  6. Matteo | July 21, 2007 at 11:42 pm |

    Darwin was too good a man to be proud of this sort of foolishness. Come on guys. Really.

  7. IanR | July 21, 2007 at 11:47 pm |

    Tempting though it is to move Behe’s and Wells’ books out of the science section, I think I would look suspicious lugging large quantities of books clear across the store. It’s a little different when you have grabbed one copy of The Edge of Evolution off the shelf to look at, and you also happen to have a book on Christian theology to return to the shelves…

  8. The Ridger | July 22, 2007 at 8:18 am |

    Not that this is censorship, or anything like it, but… As someone who used to work in a bookstore, I keep thinking of how much reshelving the salesclerks have to do anyway, and can’t bring myself to make them do more. Plus, I always hated it when the computer told me we had the book in the store and I couldn’t find it on the shelf …You never know if you’ve just lost a customer.

  9. Brad S | July 24, 2007 at 11:29 am |

    I did this once. I moved Behe’s books to Christian Theology instead of New Age, though.

  10. Occam's Trowel | August 9, 2007 at 10:29 am |

    Folks from the Religious Right also do this with books from the Gay/Lesbian section so that shoppers can’t find them. You’re in good company in deciding what other people should read.