{"id":504,"date":"2008-03-14T05:35:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-08-06T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:58:46","slug":"sweeping-up-the-crumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping up the crumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tallahassee Democrat quite rightly praises lawmakers<\/a> who passed up seeing the Expelled movie. I have yet to see an official count of how many lawmakers actually went to the movie, but I have heard from sources that the number is in single digits.<\/p>\n

But the evening at downtown’s IMAX Theater, which was rented out to Mr. Stein’s group for $940, was a bust, with only about 100 people attending the movie. And most of those weren’t lawmakers who were (tiptoeing out on that limb now) apparently not really interested in wading into a dispute that exacerbates two controversies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tallahassee Democrat quite rightly praises lawmakers who passed up seeing the Expelled movie. I have yet to see an official count of how many lawmakers actually went to the movie, but I have heard from sources that the number … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-88","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=500","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":0},"title":"Sunshine Law violation?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Is the movie being screened just for state legislators in any way a violation of Florida's Sunshine Law? Florida has strict laws governing public records and public meetings. Any meeting of lawmakers must be properly advertised and must be open to the public. So, does having some lawmakers attend a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Creationism Bills"","block_context":{"text":"Creationism Bills","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":497,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=497","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":1},"title":"Florida legislature getting Expelled","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Rep. D. Alan Hays, who filed creationism bill (\"academic freedom\") HB 1483, has invited his fellow lawmakers out to a movie. Let's see here ... what's good playing right now that Florida's legislator's might like to see. Oh! I know! How about a film where good ol' fashioned creationism\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Creationism Bills"","block_context":{"text":"Creationism Bills","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":575,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=575","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":2},"title":"I hate doing this, but someone needs our help","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm loathe to give even negative publicity to that horrific, big screen spew Expelled, but I've decided to mention an upcoming event concerning that movie for two reasons. One: a deeply concerned person near where this event is taking place e-mailed me to ask for help\/advice on what to do\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 636 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 636 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=575#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":499,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=499","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":3},"title":"Legislator’s movie date getting noticed","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Word about Rep. Hays' movie invite to his fellow Florida legislators is filtering out to the media. Newspaper blogs are talking up a storm on the event. The Orlando Sentinel has no less than three separate blogs on the subject: education, politics and entertainment. From the politics blog: The House\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Creationism Bills"","block_context":{"text":"Creationism Bills","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":503,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=503","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":4},"title":"A quick analysis","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's my quick take on the whole Expelled mess and the relation to the creationism bills. I've been closely watching the media reports concerning science education in Florida for a few years now. I've seen tidal waves of news coverage when anti-evolution\/anti-science rises from the depths. 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