The Expelled People: Compulsive Liars
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by blue collar scientistThe makers of the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, are well-known to lie early and often, even when there is no particular reason.
After kicking PZ Myers out of an Expelled screening, but letting Richard Dawkins in, the creationist cretins said:
- PZ was kicked out because he was screaming at people and causing trouble or something
- PZ was kicked out because he didn’t have an invitation
- PZ was kicked out because the producer of Expelled wanted to make him pay to see the movie
- Dawkins was let in because nobody recognized him
- Dawkins was let in because he used his confusing full name of Clinton Richard Dawkins (calling “Clinton” the surname), which is on his passport
- Dawkins was let in because he’s a kindly English gentleman
- …
Whatever. All those things can’t be true, so some of them are definitely lies.
But now the Expelled people are lying deliberately. When they have a showing, and people sign up, they are going through the sign-up list and vetting the attendees. (They are no doubt scared of an embarrassment similar to that of the Dawkins-Myers fiasco.) Once they’ve found out who the bad guys are - i.e., anyone interested in telling the truth, about science or anything - they tell them that the screening has been cancelled.
But it hasn’t actually been cancelled. They just reschedule it to an hour earlier. And tell the people they do want to come about the change.
Seriously, I’m not making this up - check it out.
About six months ago I had a situation with a person who wanted to come to a party I was throwing at my house. They had done something wrong that had caused a lot of pain to several of my guests, and I didn’t consider myself to be this person’s friend in any case. I had the moral fortitude to tell them that they were not welcome in my home and would not be admitted if they did come to the party. But what do the Expelled people do when faced with a vaguely similar situation? They lie and manipulate people.
Creationists just aren’t capable of telling the truth.
Tags: creationism, dirty tricks, expelled, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, intelligent design, liars, lying, movie
April 4th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I’m glad that PZ, Dawkins, and basically every other person involved in actual science are letting the public know about this. These Expelled people just keep digging a deeper and deeper grave. Did they think none of this would happen? Did they think they could sneak their little propoganda movie into theaters unhindered?
April 5th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
If indeed Expelled is going to be on TV tomorrow as an infomercial, then the entire “breach of security” rationale goes out the window. No more non-disclosure agreements, no more night-vision scopes to prevent video pirates. As of tomorrow, it’s out there.
Unless, of course, the infomercial is simply a full-length ad for the movie itself.
Sadly, I don’t get that channel, so I can’t watch it.