Digital Culture Studies

Ben Stein has a new movie out, called Expelled: No intelligence allowed. The tagline is pretty precious: Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is every generation has its rebel…Ben blows the horn on supression. Apparently, Big Science also expelled grammar from the classroom. Its hard not to automatically reach for the joke on this one, but the movie is dead serious about ‘exposing’ the stranglehold so called Big Science has on …. science…and how unaccommodating they are about teaching things that….aren’t scientific….in science classrooms.

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From the Stats website: “ Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Our goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies.”

With that in mind, check out their list of the worst science news stories of 2007. This doesn’t really need my commentary - just go read it and laugh.

Ben can see, without eyes.

He hacked his brain.