Exposing the Distortions in 'Expelled'

Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:51:24 pm PST

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know...

In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a “rebel” willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But Expelled has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution, ID—and with its own agenda. Here are a few examples—add your own with a comment, and we may add it to another draft of this story. For our complete coverage, see Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed—Scientific American’s Take.

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