Blue Collar Scientist

I’ve been up to my elbows in telescopes for the last couple days and haven’t been reading my blogroll or news, so it is possible this is already all over the internet and everyone knows about it, but still, I feel like I have to post for the sake of completeness.

I’ve already published a letter from a descendant of holocaust survivors about why she thought that Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was a piece of anti-semitic propaganda. And some of the numerous commentators to our Expelled coverage here have made similar points.

Now, the Anti-Defamation League has made a statement denouncing Expelled (emphasis mine):

The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent design theory.

Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler’s genocidal madness.

Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry.

The Anti-Defamation League was founded to fight anti-Semitism “through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry,” and Expelled is certainly exhibits anti-Semitism, hatred, prejudice, and bigotry in abundance.

Hat tip to JimboB.