atheist activist's book seeks to halt conservatives' 'attack on reason'

"...Niose began his talk by saying America has created "great minds and forward-looking thinkers" like Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov and Gloria Steinem.

"Instead of people like that running the country, we've got people like Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann --"

As if on cue, the crowd grumbled and murmured unhappily at the names of religious-right politicians.

"There's this real vibrant intellectual community, but it ain't running the country," said Niose, who is a personal-injury attorney with an office in Fitchburg..."

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