“What surprised me is it is a really lousy film, even if you happen to agree with it,” said [Richard] Dawkins, who took advantage of a question-and-answer session after the screening to ask why Myers wasn’t allowed in. “P.Z. is in the film extensively. If anyone had a right to see the film, it was him. The incompetence, on a public relations level, is beyond belief.”<\/p>\n
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In the meantime, [P.Z.] Myers is entertained by this irony: “Expelled’s” closing credits include a thank-you to him. So he knows the filmmakers are grateful for the couple of hours he gave them last year. Just not grateful enough to let him see their movie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For those of you who don’t travel the science blogs highway and so don’t already know about this, there is an interesting, and even funny display of incompetence surrounding the folks who are screening the movie Expelled around the country. … 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":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":497,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=497","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":0},"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":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=500","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":1},"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. 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