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Posted on: April 14, 2008 5:04 PM, by PZ Myers
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY APPARATUS DIRECTIVE
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We need to get the NCSE's counter-site to the hideous little propaganda film, Expelled, to rank higher in the search engines. The way to do this is for lots and lots of you to link to the Expelled Exposed site with the word Expelled. It's not hard: just copy this code into a blog post.
<a href="http://expelledexposed.com/"><i>Expelled</i></a>Whenever you write about the movie, use that link. Do it a bunch of times, if you want. It's more effective if many people use the same link every time, though, than for one person to be repetitive.
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Comments
Actually, I don't know why we don't just suppress everything about ID and Expelled. We have the courts, the media, and education all on the side of suppression, so I can't help but think our Inquisitors are simply a bunch of hopeless slackasses.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | April 14, 2008 5:11 PM
*cue heavy Vader breathing*
I have done your bidding, my master. Now teach me the ways of the Dark Side.
Posted by: E in MD | April 14, 2008 5:15 PM
The site sure ain't pretty. Is there anyway it could be made more inviting? Like with a picture of PZ Myers in schoolboy shorts?
Posted by: Mavaddat | April 14, 2008 5:15 PM
The ebil Darwinists are haxoring Google!!
Posted by: Dutch Delight | April 14, 2008 5:17 PM
I wish there was more science on the site. It would be nice if there was a big "Evidence for Evolution" link. Let's all hope that Expelled is a miserable failure.
Posted by: Tosser | April 14, 2008 5:18 PM
So how do you post the raw HTML so it doesn't render like this:
Expelled?
What's the trick?
Posted by: Alex | April 14, 2008 5:20 PM
By your command.
Posted by: James F | April 14, 2008 5:21 PM
To those lamenting the lack of info on the site: They say at the top that they will be posting a full review on April 15. I assume (and hope) it will become more informative and complete at that time.
Posted by: Dan B. | April 14, 2008 5:23 PM
PZ,
Not good advice. Thousands of people linking to a website with identical text will very likely trigger a 'Google bomb' flag and have the very opposite effect that is hoped for.
Much better that people link with a variety of linking text.
Posted by: DavidONE | April 14, 2008 5:24 PM
I think you might appreciate this webcomic, today's Overcompensating by Jeffrey Rowland:
http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080414.html
"Because Ben Stein is just as qualified to make software as he is to talk about evolutionary biology."
;-)
Posted by: Sandra | April 14, 2008 5:25 PM
I seem to have led a privileged life. I've never seen Ben Stein on TV, movies etc other than the stills relating to what is clearly a ridiculous film. Eugenie Scott? The famous, beautiful anthropologist who sticks it to people like Stein, first heard of her years ago! Thanks to her for Expelled Exposed.
Posted by: Roger Scott | April 14, 2008 5:27 PM
Mission complete! :-)
Posted by: pandora | April 14, 2008 5:28 PM
Went back and added the link to every mention of the movie on my blog.
Oh yeah and Expelled.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | April 14, 2008 5:31 PM
Alex,
You need to use HTML entities
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.3.2
Posted by: amk | April 14, 2008 5:32 PM
Go to the main page and scroll down a little.
Use the HTML codes instead of < and >. < is & l t ; without the spaces, and > is & g t ;. (Short for "less than" and "greater than".)
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | April 14, 2008 5:32 PM
Alex -- There are a few ways. One is to use the "XML" tag. (as opposed to the "a" or "i" etcetera tags).
Expelled.
Another is to convert the html-encoding characters to their html-character equivalents in your page's raw code. ( This site is a conversion tool.)
<a href="http://expelledexposed.com/"><i>Expelled</i></a>
Hopefully that helps. :)
(Semi-anonymous Reddit user.)
Posted by: IConrad | April 14, 2008 5:32 PM
So, do you think deceipt will be as effective?
Posted by: pandora | April 14, 2008 5:32 PM
Which, as your post shows, didn't work.
I forgot to mention: don't preview.
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | April 14, 2008 5:34 PM
Does Richard Dawkins command me to do this? Because we all know he's the atheist pope. Well, you are surely a highly respected cardinal at least, so your wish is my command. (Not that anyone reads my blog, but as I just posted referencing Expelled, I figured why not?)
Posted by: Cogito | April 14, 2008 5:36 PM
What?
No *jazzhands*?
Posted by: Sili | April 14, 2008 5:38 PM
I believe using the "nofollow" attribute on links, as scienceblogs does automatically, will cause Googlebot to ignore that link. So we can link to Expelled!'s own site without helping their pagerank.
Posted by: amk | April 14, 2008 5:39 PM
Done.
Also, Expelled.
Posted by: Flamethorn | April 14, 2008 5:40 PM
The Central Committees orders have been carried out!
Long Live The Glorious Darwinist Revolution!
Posted by: Natasha Yar-Routh | April 14, 2008 5:43 PM
Heh. I put it in the footer of http://urnotalone.com - we get around 37,000 unique hits a day. The search engines should have a field day with that one.
Posted by: Daniel Frederick | April 14, 2008 5:44 PM
Pharyngulites, a corollary to my #22 post above:
Linking to Expelled here will not effect Google page rank. It is futile.
Posted by: amk | April 14, 2008 5:46 PM
Ben Stein's three claims to fame are:
1.A 2 minute role as a teacher in a film 25 years ago
2.Being a speech writer for the worst president ever (and yes I'm counting W.Bush and U.S. grant)
3. A game show on comedy central
And now this nifty travesty Expelled
Posted by: Amplexus | April 14, 2008 5:48 PM
Does it help if people google the word expelled, and then sift through the pages to click on the exposed expelled page?
It's currently on the 6th page in this search.
DS
Posted by: drunkensci | April 14, 2008 5:48 PM
Got it. Thanks all.
<a href="http://expelledexposed.com/"><i>Expelled</i></a>
Posted by: Alex | April 14, 2008 5:51 PM
This post is the 6th result when I search for expelled:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php
Posted by: Amy | April 14, 2008 5:52 PM
by the way, those who fail to obey will be picked up by the tentacles of jet-black Atheist Conspiracy Enforcement Division helicopters, in order to re-educate them, that they will obey in the future.
Posted by: llewelly | April 14, 2008 5:53 PM
Why not just wait until April 20th, when the nation's film critics cause the film's website to rank higher with the search terms "content-free ass-headed wankfest" than with the word "expelled".
Posted by: Brownian, OM | April 14, 2008 5:57 PM
It is the Evolutionist's cowardly fears of the TRUTH that makes this moment so delectable. Ben Stein is a Rock! HIS strength brings the Unbelievers' lies into the light. May God bless, B.S.!
All atheistic attacks against Ben Stein and Expelled - a humble man with Ein stein's intellect adrift in a modern world of sin - are artless hacks.
Copyright infringement is such a weak case. Who - after all - designed the cell? Who gave Harvard permission to copy the cell's design and to put it on video? Did they pray over it? Were one to start on PAGE ONE, eventually one would understand. No copyrights apply to HIS works.
A Google bomb? Is that the best the vaunted avenger of atheism can mount? (If only Jesus were his sidekick...)
Rush Limbaugh continually advertises for the movie. PZ Myers - sir, you are no Rush Limbaugh!! What good is a google bomb against the towering intellect of Rush Limbaugh? He could defeat any of the weak arguments of Neo-Darwinian Post-Objectified Evolutionism with half his brain firmly tied behind his back.
The TRUTH is on the side of the Righteous, but it is not too late to see the light! God is LOVE. One can still accept JESUS Christ - it is not too late to abandon the selfish willfulness of intellect and desire.
Peace to you.
Mark Witt
Intelligent Design,
Institute of Theory
New Haven, CT
Posted by: Mark Witt | April 14, 2008 5:57 PM
Anyone else note that the Expelled promo commercial is showing on the Science Channel? Ben Stein gets expelled for making a movie--that sux.
The gaseous Expelled, soon to appear in a theater near you (or perhaps not).
Posted by: jeh | April 14, 2008 5:59 PM
I work for a government agency. I think I'll modify my application's index.cfm file to include your link.
On second thought, I guess my boss might notice. Never mind.
(I might bury it in the reports menu, though...)
Posted by: MikeM | April 14, 2008 6:00 PM
HEY Mark WittLESS,
Believe it OR not, CAPS LOCK doesn't AUTOMATICALLY make your MORONIC blathering CORRECT.
Now, learn to write English at least semi-properly or get off the internet you STUPID FUCK!
Posted by: Brownian, OM | April 14, 2008 6:02 PM
If i understand pagerank, think if pz linked to expelledexposed from the highly ranked http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php it will make a huge difference
Posted by: zwa | April 14, 2008 6:02 PM
Thank you, Mark Witt. You made my day.
You are, indeed, appropriately named.
Posted by: MikeM | April 14, 2008 6:03 PM
Damn. I've gone and misplaced my copy of The Great International Atheist Conspiracy Handbook. Am I supposed to take it on faith (heh!) that I must obey anything carrying the name of the CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY APPARATUS DIRECTIVE (in all caps, no less), or am I supposed to balk unless you say "
SimonRichard says"?Posted by: Zeno | April 14, 2008 6:03 PM
"May God bless, B.S.!"
Pithy.
Posted by: jmd | April 14, 2008 6:06 PM
#33: very nicely done. Your spelling is a bit too good for you to be a real creationist, though. :-)
Posted by: Despard | April 14, 2008 6:06 PM
This is an excellent idea. however, from a Search Engnine optimization perspective these people need to make http://expelledexposed.com/ 301 redirect to http://www.expelledexposed.com/ or vice versa. if you have the www and non-www version splitting the inbound links you will dilute the quality of these inbound links. if you make one version 301 redirect to the other, all links pointing to either version will stack up and count towards a single ranking.
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
Posted by: Evolurtion is a Fact | April 14, 2008 6:08 PM
PZ Myers - sir, you are no Rush Limbaugh!!
And we are all thankful for that!
Jesus sure helped Rush get out of a bit of trouble a little while back. But that hardly compares to the his save of Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly's career in broadcasting. Somebody must have really been lookin' out for him.
It's good for IDists to have role models like Limbaugh and O'Reilly to look up to.
Posted by: jeh | April 14, 2008 6:10 PM
Huh, having looked at the guy's website it's entirely possible that I'm a victim of Poe's Law...
Posted by: Despard | April 14, 2008 6:13 PM
I've posted this four times over:
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2008/04/pharyngula-we-are-here.html
http://aglaw.blogspot.com/2008/04/pharyngula-we-are-here.html
http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2008/04/pharyngula-we-are-here.html
http://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/2008/04/pharyngula-we-are-here.html
I also offer a slightly different variation on the formatting, but the appearance of the word "Expelled" and the link to the NCSE's site should be identical.
Posted by: Jim Chen | April 14, 2008 6:17 PM
PZ, you're a great guy, but I'm not kissing your ring. Sorry. I can see RD in one of the funny pope hats, for some reason... In a Monty Python-inspired way, of course.
Posted by: Aquaria | April 14, 2008 6:19 PM
Had to look up Poe's Law - brilliant! Oh and Mark Twitt - please PLEASE get a mental evaluation.
Posted by: Alexander | April 14, 2008 6:23 PM
I don't even need special x-ray glasses to see those banners and reveal expelled-supporters as inside out aliens bent on terraforming our planet to their needs?
Long way for a They Live joke.
Posted by: hmc | April 14, 2008 6:25 PM
Just a test Expelled
Posted by: foxfire | April 14, 2008 6:26 PM
Oh man, come on. Bush is a lot worse than Nixon. Tricky Dick was evil, but he was competent. Rather than evil and incompetent, the worst of both worlds. It's not exactly Nixon's fault he was President at the one time in our nation's history when we had both a) the press had some icojones and b) a Democratic party with spine when in the majority of both houses of Congress.
Posted by: Aquaria | April 14, 2008 6:27 PM
Posted by: me | April 14, 2008 6:27 PM
Okay, condemn creationist anti-science propaganda garbage to the internet twilight and leave it there. Hopefully this helps the googlebomb effort.
Posted by: viggen | April 14, 2008 6:28 PM
The name of his institute says it all, or at least it's acronym...
Hmm. Mark may have Poe'd me. Then again, I'd just read some of Twaddle's (aka Heddle) bullshit on the "We're getting blamed for everything" thread and teh stupid had me somewhat addled....
Posted by: Brownian, OM | April 14, 2008 6:35 PM
I hear and obey.
Posted by: John Wick | April 14, 2008 6:35 PM
Holy blabbering moronic idiot Mark Twit @ 32! Was it your freaking imaginary god that made you an insane cretin or was it our wonderful evolution! All your invoking of your non-existent god will do you no good! You are an idiot and you will remain an idiot until evolution deems it necessary to remove you from the gene pool. Let's see this shit god of yours; come on bring it down and prevent us from wiping you and your sleaze retards from your cesspool postings. Not only is your god imaginary and useless, your only recourse is to commit suicide and remove yourselves from the gene pool and save our evolution from morphing you into shit to add to your shit god.
Posted by: Holbach | April 14, 2008 6:41 PM
The Doctor: This is madness. The Daleks won't thank you for capturing me, they'll kill you.
Stein: I didn't quite tell you the truth. I serve the Daleks. I'm a Dalek agent.
Daleks: Exterminate the doctor! Exterminate! Exterminate! Expelled! Expelled!
(Yes, the evil character in this episode is Stein)
Posted by: Sonja | April 14, 2008 6:42 PM
Amazing true story. I never imagined the expelled idiots could be this unethical.
See comment 262 on this blog:
http://expelledthemovie.com/blog/2008/04/11/expelled-from-expelled-2/
I said: The National Center for Science Education will be posting our full response to the Ben Stein movie Expelled on this site on April 15; for now, we hope you will find this collection of resources helpful. http://expelledexposed.com/
But somebody who moderates the Expelled blog changed my comment to this:
Big Science will be posting our full response to the Ben Stein movie Expelled on this site on April 15; for now, we hope you will find this collection of resources helpful. http://expelledexposed.com/
Posted by: BobC | April 14, 2008 6:42 PM
...I guess it might help the google bomb effort more if I said anti-Expelled.
Posted by: viggen | April 14, 2008 6:42 PM
A kid I went to grade school with got expelled.
Posted by: BlueIndependent | April 14, 2008 6:43 PM
Was I the only one laughing out loud at Mark Witt? I thought he was *parodying* that point of view until it ended with an ID sig, not a /snark.
Posted by: Samantha Vimes | April 14, 2008 6:46 PM
Has anyone seen this?:
Expelled
Posted by: Nic Nicholson | April 14, 2008 6:47 PM
Ben Stein got flunked, not Expelled.
Posted by: kb | April 14, 2008 6:51 PM
I forgot to say in #55:
Expelled
Posted by: BobC | April 14, 2008 6:52 PM
I'm pretty sure he is doing parody, but subtly enough (including his ID sig) that he almost passes for an IDist.
He's a bit too slick, a bit too open about ID, to be real, IMO.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | April 14, 2008 6:56 PM
been on it for a forthnight already for expelled or
expelled, the movie or
ben stein or
intelligent design
Posted by: toomanytribbles | April 14, 2008 6:58 PM
Hehe, this is fun.
^_^J.
Posted by: gyokusai | April 14, 2008 7:00 PM
@Holbach: "You are an idiot and you will remain an idiot until evolution deems it necessary to remove you from the gene pool."
You tell him! If there's one thing we can't stand for on a blog devoted to critical thining, it's people who spout off without scrutinizing the evidence!
Posted by: Duncan | April 14, 2008 7:00 PM
#32: Most excellent satire. You, sir, shall never be Expelled
Posted by: Carl_pdx | April 14, 2008 7:01 PM
I ran a google adwords campaign for a while, but I stopped after 100 dollars was spent. I was linking to the expelledexposed.com site and using the keywords 'expelled', 'expelled the movie', 'expelled ben stein', and 'pz myers' (because some used those to link to the expelled movie website).
Posted by: Eric | April 14, 2008 7:02 PM
"..."I never imagined the expelled idiots could be this unethical."
I think it's time that everyone to stop being so surprised by those who wave their "belief flags" being deceitful and manipulative. Their overwhelming confidence that their beliefs are right gives them all the authority they need to break every one of their precious ten commandments. They are mindless zombies without compassion or empathy who will stop at nothing to attack those who question the reality of their pathetic world-view.
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not real, he becomes furious when they are disputed." [Bertrand Russell, "Human Society in Ethics and Politics"]
Posted by: Alex | April 14, 2008 7:03 PM
'thining' > thinKing
(as in the King of 'thin', who at times can be rather critical)
Boo Mark 'IDIoT' Witt!!!
Posted by: Duncan | April 14, 2008 7:04 PM
Ah, making a post out of this made my mind spit out the best description of religion in Finland I've found so far. Namely,
"I have a tiny worrisome feeling that there could a creationist or, good Richard, maybe even two, in Finland, but it's hard to say since here religion is a bit like syphilis: If you got it, you don't flaunt it. Except in your support group, I guess."
Posted by: Masks of Eris | April 14, 2008 7:05 PM
OK, I put $50 more dollars in (but that's probably the end).
It should show up if you google any of those terms (expelled, expelled movie, expelled the movie, pz myers, etc).
Please don't click on the ad though... that costs me 10 cents per click (impressions are free)
Let those dimes go to people who are googling, looking for the official site for the movie.
Posted by: Eric | April 14, 2008 7:09 PM
I! Obey! *said in my best dalek voice*
Damn it, my weird Cthulhu-themed blog is turning way too serious... I'm going to have to start a new one just so I can rant at stupid people.
Posted by: Ted D | April 14, 2008 7:10 PM
You mean it goes like this?
Expelled
Posted by: R.Schauer | April 14, 2008 7:11 PM
The NCSE *is* big science?
That explains a lot, they seem to have a particular hatred for the NCSE, they pre-expelled Barbara Forrest from seeing the movie as well. I guess PZ, Dawkins and other contenders can stop pretending, the creationists have found the true leader of the Darwinist conspiracy! They must've been pretty flippin' upset when they found out they couldn't send Ben Stein around for another interview because she found out that Mark Mathis was being dishonest.
I guess they are still hurting from Barbara's role in the Dover case, apparently their main argument for questioning that case nowadays is another Discovery institute lie (something about 92% of the decision being copied from the ACLU (lie #1) and pretending that this would be a abnormal or a bad thing (lie #2)).
Posted by: Dutch Delight | April 14, 2008 7:12 PM
Somebody set up us the google bomb!
Expelled
Posted by: Stuart Ritchie | April 14, 2008 7:12 PM
Thank you, that was a very useful link.
Posted by: Moses | April 14, 2008 7:12 PM
Mark Witt is a clever parody troll, nothing more.
Posted by: Clever Bunnies | April 14, 2008 7:15 PM
That freaking retard movie should be titled "Repelled". And Stein and his retard brigade should be labelled as
"Repellants". The slimy halwits, if they had half a brain they would be lopsided!
Posted by: Holbach | April 14, 2008 7:17 PM
Posted by: Kyle W. | April 14, 2008 7:19 PM
Wow Eric. That's valiant of you. Very cool.
Posted by: Alex | April 14, 2008 7:19 PM
ref. mark witt #32 "May God bless, B.S.!"
BS indeed !!!
Now it makes sense !!!!
Posted by: allkom | April 14, 2008 7:24 PM
The NCSE site is currently the fifth hit for the query {expelled movie}.
Posted by: Blake Stacey | April 14, 2008 7:26 PM
Mark Witt is a clever parody troll, nothing more.
Posted by: Clever Bunnies | April 14, 2008 7:15 PM
He must be...."God Bless B.S.!" ......come on!
Posted by: hermit | April 14, 2008 7:29 PM
The NCSE *is* big science?
I live just blocks away, and if that's so, well, they must have a good-sized basement.
Posted by: CJO | April 14, 2008 7:35 PM
Splitters!
Posted by: Zarquon | April 14, 2008 7:35 PM
been on it for a forthnight already for expelled or
expelled, the movie or
ben stein or
intelligent design
Posted by: toomanytribbles | April 14, 2008 7:37 PM
Unfortunately, Expelled Exposed wasn't on the first page when I googled Expelled. However, PZ's Expelled blog post was.
Posted by: Wes | April 14, 2008 7:39 PM
It's actually more effective if you link to it with more than just "expelled" as your link term. After all, "Expelled" is not the only search term people use. I get tons and tons of people that were searching for "expelled reviews" for instance. And Expelled Exposed is now finally high on that results list.
Posted by: Bad | April 14, 2008 7:41 PM
Anyone with a Wordpress Blog... you can use the "Linked" plugin to set a keyword "Expelled" to the Expelled Exposed site... that way, every instance of the word "Expelled" on your blog will become a link to the GOOD site.
Posted by: Christopher Sisk | April 14, 2008 7:44 PM
This kid in college exposed himself and got expelled for it.
Posted by: AtheistMcGee | April 14, 2008 7:50 PM
This kid in college exposed himself and got expelled for it.
Posted by: AtheistMcGee | April 14, 2008 7:51 PM
Expelled
Hope I did it right. :)
Posted by: Atomicmutant | April 14, 2008 8:01 PM
Why would I wish to use Expelled in this way? What would be the advantage to creating an Expelled link? Would linking to Expelled Exposed really help the google search?
Posted by: PalMD | April 14, 2008 8:02 PM
I decided to help out: http://atheisthussy.blogspot.com/2008/04/exposed-again.html
:~)
Posted by: Rose / Intergalactic Hussy | April 14, 2008 8:04 PM
Compulsory self advertisement of support: http://copache.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/expelled-exposed/
Compulsory link to Expelled Exposed: I was Expelled. Expelled damn it.
Posted by: Copache | April 14, 2008 8:13 PM
Have you guys seen this?
lol.
Posted by: riverrun | April 14, 2008 8:23 PM
I have done thy bidding, master... or whatever. "Something, something, something, Dark Side! Something, something, complete!" :)
Posted by: Chris | April 14, 2008 8:30 PM
Done, and done.
Posted by: markbt73 | April 14, 2008 8:33 PM