Expelled!
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Talk Origins wants to buy Expelled. Can you help them?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 25, 2011 Apparently, when you make a movie, there’s this box of stuff left over that someone has to own. It can include things like the original unedited film/video, from which the director and editors selected/cherry picked what they wanted to include, as well as various correspondences and documents and stuff. The company that produced that horrid…
Expelled (The Movie) Out of Hot Water from Ono Law Suit
Posted by Greg Laden on October 10, 2008 After both the state and federal courts rejected the attempts of Yoko Ono Lennon and EMI Records to enjoin the showing of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed on the ground it used a 15-second fragment of John Lennon’s Imagine, all of the plaintiffs in both cases have now withdrawn their claims and dismissed their cases. Bad…
Examining Expelled
Posted by Greg Laden on August 20, 2008 How many things are wrong with this?
Expelled! Private Screening for Politicians. How nice.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 11, 2008 This just in: Perhaps he was inspired by the turnout for Young People Fucking, or maybe he misses all that media attention he got after taking credit for getting C-10 through the House with nary a peep over the controversial changes to the film tax rebate. Whatever the reason, Reverend Charles McVety is headed back…
Ono: I Want To Just Say No
Posted by Greg Laden on May 22, 2008 Update on the Ono Law Suit … As you most certainly know, Yoko Ono and her two sons have sued the producers of Expelled! for their use without permission of the song Imagine by John Lennon. Well, it appears as though a ruling from the court is imminent. AP is lubing the shoots with a…
Jason Rosenhouse is a Creationist!
Posted by Greg Laden on May 8, 2008 You Can’t Hide …I landed a job in Kansas. Finally, a state with some horse sense! But even here the Darwinian octopus had insinuated its fetid tentacles, depriving the good and open-minded high school students of the state the right hear to both sides of the story. Even when they provided a forum for polite…
Poll Expelled! By Ben Stein
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2008 Expelled!, the so called documentary, has a web site on MySpace. Recently they ran a poll asking if Intelligent Design should be taught in schools or not. The results of that poll overwhelming indicate “no” … with 420 thousand “nay” votes and fewer than one thousand in favor of violating the tenets of the Constitution…
The First Commandment of Scientific Investigation: Being Honest Matters
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2008 Second commandment: Try not to be a moron. (FYI: observed instances of speciation) Hat Tip: TUIBG and Julia
Flock of Dodos
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2008 With all this talk about Expelled!, the creationist movie, I thought it was about time to resurrect the review I wrote many moons ago of Flock of Dodos by Randy Olson, along with some updated information. Flock of Dodos is a much better film than Expelled!, and explores the same issue, with somewhat different conclusions.…
Expelled! Induced Conversations and the Future of Science, Medicine and Hollywood
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2008 Despite the fact that the producers of Expelled! have the most nefarious of motives in mind, and that we can expect more from them (we are waiting for the other shoe to drop), it is interesting to note how many conversations this documentary about Intelligent Design Creationism has sparked. Ultimately, the intended purpose of Expelled!…
Expelled! in Iowa
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2008 Evolving in Kansas provides a lie-fighting fact revealing review of Expelled!’s showing in Iowa.
Expelled! The Obvious Next Step
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2008 Now that Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed, the movie, exists, we wait not so quietly for the other shoe to drop. I’ll tell you in a moment what that other shoe is going to look like and where it is going to drop. First I want to make a couple of topically linked but otherwise discombobulated…
Randy Olson’s Authority, PZ Myers Olympian Presence, Chris Mooney’s Framing and Greg Laden’s Assholehood
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2008 Chris Mooney has made an “appeal to authority” (Randy Olson) in asserting that Expelled is a success by Hollywood standards, and this may be correct. PZ Myers and his comet tail may have increased that success as per Mooney’s Framing TOE, but the reverse is also true: the science blogging share of the blogosphere has…
Expelled! A Box Office Flop. Or Success. Depending on how you frame it.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2008 Chris Mooney, who every day seems to transmogrify more and more into a creationist apologist, makes the case that Expelled! is a box office success. He seems almost giddy about it in his post on the topic. I’m sure Chris will be blaming PZ Myers, me, the rest of us people for part of this.…
Expelled Dishonesty and Darwin
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2008 Steve Mirsky does a little Darwin Quote Mining reversal exercise in a recent post called “Never You Mine: Ben Stein’s Selective Quoting of Darwin:” One of the many egregious moments in the new Ben Stein anti-evolution film “Expelled” is the truncation of a quote from Charles Darwin so that it makes him appear to give…
Seattle Times Guest Editorial on Expelled!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 17, 2008 The Seattle Times, which as far as I know is a regular newspaper, has published a guest editorial by Bruce Chapman in their opinion section. Chapman has published a lot of editorials in the Seattle Times, and in sum, they make him look like (I’m just sayin’) he’s on the payroll of both Microsoft and…
Expelled Googled
Posted by Greg Laden on April 16, 2008 At this moment (noonish central time, April 16th) if you type “Expelled” into a google search, the results in order are: 1: The expelled movie site. 2: Another page on the expelled movie dite 3: The wikipedia entry for Expelled 4: A blog by PZ Myers at Pharyngula for when he got expelled from Expelled…
PZ Myers “expelled” from creationist film screening
Posted by Greg Laden on April 16, 2008 Expelled! Reviewed in Time
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 And the review is very negative. Of Expelled, as well as of PZ Myers and atheists in general. The man made famous by Ferris Bueller, … quickly wades into waters far too deep for him. He makes all the usual mistakes nonscientists make whenever they try to take down evolution, asking, for example, how something…
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