Friday, March 21, 2008

PZ Myers Expelled from Expelled

Associate Prof and Biologist PZ Myers tried to see a screening of the anti-evolution smear-job/movie Expelled in the Twin Cities last night. He's in the movie, Ben Stein et al even thank him in the credits.

However, they apparently thought he was a threat of some sort. The producers kicked him out of line and he was threatened with arrest if he didn't leave immediately.

The funny thing? He was standing right next to his guest, who they didn't accost and kick out: Richard Dawkins. They let Dawkins and Myers' family in, but not him.

Here's a followup report after talking to the people who did get in. Sounds pretty awful, sounds like a total hack job:

"We laughed over the movie, which I hear is not only boring and poorly made, but is ludicrous in its dishonesty. Apparently, a standard tactic is to do lots of fast cuts between biologists like me or Dawkins or Eugenie Scott and shots of Nazi atrocities. It's all very ham-handed. The audience apparently ate it up, though."