An indie film project is looking for help funding their movie, Standing up to the Experts, which tells the story of the Texas board of education, its excessive power in defining what science is taught, and featuring that blithely incompetent buffoon, Don McLeroy. Here's a taste.
I'd like to see the whole thing myself. But then, I am a fan of horror movies.
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