I don’t watch propaganda movies, so I’m not going to watch Expelled any more than I’m going to watch Michael Moore. But, after reading an amusing article about the astounding contrary-to-fact claims in Expelled, I thought I’d mention this website for those who might be interested in the truth (or rather, lack thereof) behind Ben Stein’s claims: Expelled Exposed.

In short, Intelligent Design isn’t science simply because there are no hypotheses to be tested. Since there is nothing to test, there is no research being performed, and thus no work is being peer reviewed. Proponents complain that “the scientific community won’t take them seriously,” but they obviously don’t understand how it works. If you want to be taken seriously you need to come up with a hypothesis, test it, and publish your results. You don’t simply get to claim that, “The paradigm is wrong,” and get things changed. (Well, amusingly, Einstein was able to do this, but only because others were willing to go out and perform experiments, while mainstream science was simultaneously completely unable to detect the aether, resulting in some unrest.)

The most amusing thing I found on Expelled Exposed is that the Discovery Institute apparently once had lofty goals to actually do real science and then go promote it, acknowledging that if they failed to do the scholarly work first that they would merely be peddling propaganda. Amusingly, they haven’t produced any of the scholarly articles that they said would, but have instead moved on to movie-making. Which makes them self-proclaimed propaganda peddlers.