At least I haven't had to deal with these people.

If employees have to make a little extra effort to find a book, that's a small price to pay for intellectual honesty. Keep up the good work!

Almost hiding on the bottom shelf are two ID books by Jonathan Wells (of the hilarious Discovery Institute), perilously close to Watson's The Double Helix - for frak's sake, have they no shame? These seem to be particularly nasty and specious examples of the nonscience I aim to reclassify.

You are awesome. I want to be a science vigilante too.

As a longtime bookstore employee, I can confirm that, when deciding where to shelve books, the thought foremost in booksellers' minds is, "Will this book sell from this spot?" At my bookstore, we attempt to shelve books where we think customers who don't want to ask for help in finding things will spot them.

Moving books to another section of the store is not "helping" or "making a statement"; it is making a mess. It makes finding a book much harder for the employee who has looked it up in the computer because it's not where it's supposed to be. It means the possibility of a lost sale because the book cannot be found, at least for the moment. It means more work for already underpaid sales clerks to have to move the books back to where they originally were -- because, rest assured, that's what will probably happen.

A friendly email to the manager or buyers at your local bookstore, suggesting changes and your reasons why, would probably have a greater lasting effect.