The New York Times weighs in on Expelled: Every few minutes familiar — and ideologically unrelated — images interrupt the talking heads: a fist-shaking Nikita S. Khrushchev; Charlton Heston being subdued by a water hose in “Planet of the Apes.” This is not argument, it’s circus, a distraction from the film’s contempt for precision and intellectual rigor. This goes further than a willful misunderstanding of the scientific method. The film suggests, for example, that Dr. Read more

Today they have a video about Chris Comer, who was forced to resign from her job for failing to remain neutral on the Evolution vs. Creationism issue in Texas public schools:

Scientific American has a review of Expelled: Expelled is a movie not quite harmless enough to be ignored. Shrugging off most of the film’s attacks – all recycled from previous pro-ID works – would be easy, but its heavy-handed linkage of modern biology to the Holocaust demands a response for the sake of simple human decency. … It speaks to their anti-intellectualism and fundamental misunderstanding of science that for the makers of Expelled (and ID advocates more generally) the answer “we don’t know yet” is a badge of shame. Read more