Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:01:24 pm
It’s time for the James Randi Foundation’s “Pigasus” awards for 2008, and lo and behold — some of our favorite kooks and cranks are “honored,” including anti-vaccination airhead Jenny McCarthy and Ben Stein’s horrible creationist propaganda film “Expelled.” [Video]

Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:24:15 pm
Some LGF readers have been asking, “Hey, why are you opposed to these ‘academic freedom’ bills? Do you hate academic freedom? What’s wrong with teaching kids all sides of the evolution controversy?” Before continuing, this needs to be said: there is no “evolution controversy,” except the bogus one ginned up by ...

Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:56:53 pm
Creationist Ben Stein has withdrawn as the commencement speaker at the University of Vermont, after a huge outcry erupted over his support for the pseudo-science promoted by the Discovery Institute, and his ludicrous, highly dishonest anti-evolution film “Expelled.” And now, of course, he’s complaining that he’s being treated unfairly and suppressed ...

Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:29:55 pm
Here’s an interesting interview with Salman Hameed, an assistant professor of Integrated Science and Humanities at Massachusett’s Hampshire College: How to stop creationism gaining a hold in Islam. Unfortunately, it’s a little late to stop creationism from “gaining a hold.” It already has one. How is evolution perceived in Muslim countries? If ...

Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:54:13 pm
Roger Ebert’s comprehensive skewering of Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled (a right-wing Michael Moore-ish piece of deceptive propaganda) is a must-read: Win Ben Stein’s mind. Toward the end of the film, we find that Stein actually did want to title it “From Darwin to Hitler.” He finds a Creationist who ...

Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:18:36 pm
Jeffrey P. Schloss, a former Senior Fellow at the anti-evolution Discovery Institute, has raised the ire of his ex-associates by breaking from the ID/creationist line: The evolution of Jeffrey P. Schloss. In August 2003, Jeffrey Schloss left the Discovery Institute. What happened? In 2005, Schloss spoke out in a public interview published ...

Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:05:12 pm
In 1881, Charles Darwin wrote a letter to Klara Pölzl containing a bombshell revelation. Was Ben Stein right after all? Darwin Exposed!

Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:13:28 am
The Texas State Board of Education has begun hearings on teaching the “weaknesses” of evolutionary science—which means, of course, teaching the “strengths” of the creationist flavor of the month, “intelligent design.” And in a creepy real-life inversion of Ben Stein’s “Expelled,” the Texas Education Agency recently fired their Director of Science, ...

Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:44:16 pm
Ben Stein’s contention that Darwinian evolution led directly to the Nazi Holocaust is destroyed by genetic science. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research. The study found that bodies from 2000-year-old burial sites in eastern Denmark contained “as much ...

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

Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:54:02 am
Zomblog has photos of a creationist inspired by Ben Stein’s movie Expelled, bringing Ben’s message to the heathens at UC Berkeley: Here come the pro-Expelled demonstrations.

Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:40:57 pm
Sorry, Ben; I agree with you on a lot of things, but with this intelligent design detour you’ve gone completely off the rails. In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr. Stein: When we just saw ...

Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:52:23 pm
The National Center for Science Education is not amused by Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled, and they’ve devoted a web site to debunking what they say are the film’s dishonest claims: Expelled Exposed.

Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 9:02:15 am
An excellent piece by Ben Stein that somehow slipped past the filters at the New York Times: Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield. The other side considers it a privilege to fight and die for its beliefs. Those on the other side cannot wait to line up to blow themselves ...

Tue, Mar 7, 2006 at 5:23:16 pm
Don’t miss Ben Stein’s look at the Academy Awards and Hollywood’s Missed Tributes. The idea that it is brave to stand up for gays in Hollywood, to stand up against Joe McCarthy in Hollywood (fifty years after his death), to say that rich white people are bad, that oil companies are ...

Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 8:40:23 am
At The American Spectator, Ben Stein says We’re Losing. Greeting, fellow Americans. I have some serious news for you about the war against the terrorists, the war we are fighting to protect our liberties and our Constitution against Islamic totalitarianism. We’re losing, big time. I don’t mean we’re losing in Iraq, ...

Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 8:05:24 am
In The American Spectator, Ben Stein is appalled at the behavior of the cut-and-run Democrats. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) I see a frightening pattern here: the Democrats wanted us out of Vietnam, and never mind the genocide that followed. The Democrats want us out of Iraq and never mind that the ...

Sun, Sep 4, 2005 at 8:23:38 am
A few truths from Ben Stein, on the left’s predictable rush to judgment: Get Off His Back.

Thu, Jun 2, 2005 at 6:07:23 pm
The front page of the Washington Post waxes maudlin about Watergate, but Ben Stein has a very different take on the recent news that former FBI agent Mark Felt was “Deep Throat:” Deep Throat and Genocide. Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the ...

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 2:56:59 pm
An extraordinary, moving letter from actor/writer Ben Stein to a soldier’s wife. (Hat tip: Blackfive.) (This is a letter I wrote to the newsletter of an Army unit called The Strykers, stationed in Iraq out of Ft. Lewis, Wash. The editor asked me what I would say to make the wives ...