Scientist: Ben Stein's 'Expelled' should really be 'Flunked Out'

Comedian and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein's new documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, will not open until this Friday, but it has already been widely blasted for its alleged dishonesty and looseness with the facts.

Stein has recently emerged as a prominent spokesperson for so-called "intelligent design," a pseudo-scientific gloss over the religious philosophy of creationism. Using film-making techniques clearly borrowed from Michael Moore, Stein set out to confront scientists and educators about their alleged persecution of supporters of intelligent design, whom Stein claims have been "targeted for retaliation and harassment."

However, the National Center for Science Education has performed an extensive investigation of the "martyrs" profiled in Stein's file and has found a consistent pattern of misrepresentation.

"We reviewed public records and reports on the intelligent design promoters who were supposedly discriminated against, and we discovered that the claims that they lost their jobs over intelligent design are unsupported," biologist Josh Rosenau explained. "That said, professors who aren't making advances in their field, editors who disregard their journal's established practices, and lecturers who repeat creationist falsehoods shouldn't be surprised if they have trouble holding jobs. These people weren't expelled; they flunked out."

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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Comedian_Ben_Stein_pushed_intelligent_design_0416.html

That's how the neocons have behaved for the last 30yrs, why should they change tactics now?

to try and play the 'im hip' card in this movie and in the promotion of it..


news flash ben, matthew broderick moved on... why cant you ? youre not cool, man.

i about blew soda outa my nose when i heard him say science was the reason the jewish people were put in gas chambers.

It pointed out that Ben Stein didn't even understand what Darwin wrote. Stein thinks Darwin's theory was about the creation of life. Bzzzt! Darwin's book was about the evolution of species, not the creation of life.

And Stein's supposed to be some kind of genius? Maybe, but he's ignorant.