A wonderful documentary -- and one that has a lot to say about the critical importance of science communication -- has finally made the big time.
Ignore everything the Discovery Institute is saying about it, by the way--the formerly terrifying think tank of yore has now been reduced to complaining over a funny movie that in many ways goes just as hard on scientists as it does on the ID folks.
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I don't have ShowTime. Is there some other way to see it?
Go to the flock of dodos website and look for a screening in your area
http://www.flockofdodos.com/