Caroline Crocker is one of the ID martyrs for the faith featured in Expelled (and in now Executive Director of IDEA). The bogus nature of her case has been well known for a while, but over at Tiny Frog there is a useful "mash-up" of the available information about Crocker.
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…but she wasn't. She was allowed to continue her educational malpractice until her contract expired, and then was not rehired—something that happens to adjunct and assistant professors all the time, with no necessary implication of poor work.
The IDists have continually argued that they are being oppressed by some sort of Darwinist hegemony.
I've been overestimating creationists. Every time I look at what they're saying about evolution, my estimation drops yet further … you'd think that after years of tracking this stuff, they'd bottom out, but no.
Caroline Crocker taught creationism in some DC-area colleges, and the colleges didn't renew her contract, so she was put on wingnut welfare with a gig at the ID creationist IDEA center.
Beautiful and thanks.
The Tiny Frog has actual screen captures of her Power Point Slides, and I would fire her ass just for the bad slide presentations.
Making somebody in the back of a classroom read her tiny and wordy bad slides also breaks the Geneva Conventions BTW.