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First, Ben Stein is mocking US school kids for their ignorance in history and puts all the blame on the US school system (he may have a point or two there, lol). Then he goes on to make a movie, recently started at theaters in the US, in which he claims that people got problems at universities if they believe in IDiocy. Without going into any details which have been covered at lentgth elsewhere (see also this notable comment), the main statement of the movie is similar to claiming that if your religion tells you that 2+2=3 and you insist on it in math class, you get expelled. I hate to correct a native English speaker, but I think the proper word for that is "flunked". This silliness notwithstanding, Ben Stein is hell-bent on even surpassing the movie's idiocy. To promote the movie, he makes an utter fool of himself by displaying even more ignorance in biology than the kids he mocked displayed about recent contemporary history. And now, he apparently completely removes himself from society by claiming that "science leads you to killing people" (April 21, 2008: "behind the scenes"). John Derbyshire finds it "shameful", PZ Myers agrees and adds "irrational and unwarranted". These comments were so over the top, that even right-wing pundits denounced them, such as Charles Johnson, Ed Morrissey and Glenn Reynolds. Finally, the Anti-Defamation Leagues rebuked Ben Stein's demented holocaust claims.

What I don't get, is how such an apparent dimwit, hammered literally left, right and center, can get any airtime at all?
Posted on Friday 02 May 2008 - 09:57:01 comment: 0
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