GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
tags: atheism, atheist, godlessness, Expelled!, religion, fundamentalist christians
Last night, I was amused to learn that my friend and fellow SciBling, PZ Myers, was prevented from attending a free screening of the creationist film, presciently named Expelled! A film that thanked PZ in the credits for giving freely of his time by appearing in the film itself, no less (of course, the producers lied to him about the sort of film they were making; they claimed they were making a documentary about evolution). So much for free speech, as the fim's producer shrilly proclaims, eh?
So not only is the mockumentary producer a lying sack of shit who did not want PZ to attend the film that he was part of (probably because he was afraid that PZ might not like being misrepresented on screen), but PZ was actually threatened with arrest if he didn't leave the premises immediately, nevermind that he had to let his family know where he was going to wait while they attended the film. Sound ridiculous? Well, here's the clincher: the theatre allowed PZ's guest into the film. Who was PZ's guest?
Richard Dawkins.
Film clip below the fold.
Politics
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
Why does every two-bit douchebag think that setting ridiculous nonsense to "Bad to the Bone" is anything but lame?
Posted by: Morris Hattricke | March 21, 2008 5:39 PM
Whups. Looks like the video is "no longer available."
Posted by: ShadowWalkyr | March 21, 2008 7:54 PM
it's still there. try again.
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | March 21, 2008 8:06 PM
Ben Stein is frightened? He should be frightened the sheep don't go to see the crap-fest of a film he's putting on and he loses his ass...
Posted by: Moses | March 21, 2008 8:56 PM
I'll suggest a new tag for this post: fact is stranger than fiction.
Just when you think the creationists couldn't go any lower they do.
Posted by: JPS | March 22, 2008 9:24 AM
Yah
Posted by: Secular Pinhead | March 23, 2008 5:13 AM