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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a 2008 American documentary-style propaganda film directed by Nathan Frankowski and starring Ben Stein. The film contends that there is a conspiracy in academia to oppress and exclude people who believe in intelligent design.
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Apr 18, 2008 · Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and intelligent design in this 2008 documentary. He interviews scientists on both sides of the debate and links Darwinism to Nazism, Communism, eugenics and abortion.
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- 2008-04-18
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- Expelled quotes Charles Darwin selectively to connect his ideas to eugenics and the Holocaust. When the film is building its case that Darwin and the theory of evolution bear some responsibility for the Holocaust, Ben Stein's narration quotes from Darwin's The Descent of Man thusly
- Ben Stein's speech to a crowded auditorium in the film was a setup. "Viewers of Expelled might think that Ben Stein has been giving speeches on college campuses and at other public venues in support of ID and against "big science."
- Scientists in the film thought they were being interviewed for a different movie. As Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Eugenie Scott, Michael Shermer and other proponents of evolution appearing in Expelled have publicly remarked, the producers first arranged to interview them for a film that was to be called Crossroads, which was allegedly a documentary on "the intersection of science and religion."
- The ID-sympathetic researcher whom the film paints as having lost his job at the Smithsonian Institution was never an employee there. One section of Expelled relates the case of Richard Sternberg, who was a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and editor of the journal Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
Apr 18, 2008 · Ben Stein, an author, actor and political commentator, argues that intelligent design and evolution are both valid scientific explanations for the development of life on earth. The documentary, rated 2/5 stars by critics, is criticized for being cynical, poorly structured and biased.
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- Nathan Frankowski
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- Ben Stein
Big science has expelled smart ideas from the classroom... What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth...that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure, and even fired - for merely believing that ...
Apr 9, 2008 · Scientific American reviews the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which links evolution to the Holocaust and claims that scientists oppress ID proponents. The review exposes the film's false claims, selective quoting and misleading arguments.
