{"id":848,"date":"2008-04-09T07:43:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/flunked-not-expelled-not-even-fox-likes-it\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T13:44:39","slug":"flunked-not-expelled-not-even-fox-likes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/flunked-not-expelled-not-even-fox-likes-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Flunked, Not Expelled: Not Even Fox Likes It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FoxNews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,348468,00.html\">review<\/a> by Roger Friedman is in, and it reads like one of those Muppets in the theater balcony wrote it. Skip past the top-of-the-page stuff about Mariah Carey. Down. Further down. Next to &#8220;Buy a Link Here&#8221;, there it is: &#8220;Ben Stein: Win His Career&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAfter seeing a new non-fiction film starring Comedy Central\u2019s Ben Stein, you may not only be able to win his money, but also his career.<\/p>\n<p>Stein is that whiny little guy with the monotone voice that makes him seem funny and an unlikely &#8220;character&#8221; for TV appearances. But that career may be over come April 18 when a movie he co-wrote, narrates and appears in, called &#8220;Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,&#8221; is released.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by one Nathan Frankowski, &#8220;Expelled&#8221; is a sloppy, all-over-the-place, poorly made (and not just a little boring) &#8220;expose&#8221; of the scientific community. It\u2019s not very exciting. But it does show that Stein, who\u2019s carved out a career selling eye drops in commercials and amusing us on sitcoms, is either completely nuts or so avaricious that he\u2019s abandoned all good sense to make a buck.<\/p>\n<p>To wit: Stein, Frankowski and pals say in &#8220;Expelled&#8221; that perfectly good scientists and educators are being stigmatized for wanting to teach their students creationism and &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; \u2014 in other words, junk science \u2014 in addition to or instead of conventionally accepted Darwinism. You see, Stein, like some other celebrities, finally has shown his true colors and they aren\u2019t so pretty.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more good stuff. Go read.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: Ross Myers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FoxNews review by Roger Friedman is in, and it reads like one of those Muppets in the theater balcony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antievolution","category-law-and-politics","category-media"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Wesley R. 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