Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Page #2

In public forums

and go to conferences

Just like

everybody else does.

What if a person

published something,

say, at the smithsonian

In favor

of intelligent design

and lost his job over it?

I mean, it had been

peer-reviewed and published

And then he lost his job

over it anyway.

What about

that situation?

Well...I think

that particular situation,

There was something else

going on.

- what was going on?

- I don't know.

I mean, I don't know

because I don't know,

But I think there had

to be something.

People don't get fired

over something like that.

You roll up your sleeves,

you get to work,

You do the research,

you get your grants,

You get your data,

you publish,

And you work

your butt off,

And that's how you get

your theories taught--

What if you try and try

and roll up your sleeves

And go to work

and work your butt off,

And they say,

"we're going to fire you

If you even mention the word

intelligent design"?

I don't think that's happened.

Where is that happening?

Filmstrip narrator:

george mason university--

Throughout

its 50-year history,

Our mission

has remained clear--

To prepare a diverse

population of students

To think and to grow

In a climate of unbridled

academic freedom.

[typewriter clacking]

Stein:
after dr. Caroline

crocker simply mentioned

Intelligent design

in her cell biology class

At george mason university,

Her promising academic career

came to an abrupt end.

My supervisor invited me

into his office.

He said,

"i'm going to have

to discipline you

For teaching creationism."

And I said, "I mentioned

intelligent design

"on a couple of slides,

But I did not teach

creationism."

He said, "nonetheless,

you have to be disciplined."

At the end of the semester,

I lost my job.

Not only did

this well-loved professor

Lose her job

at george mason,

She suddenly found herself

blacklisted,

Unable to find

a job anywhere.

So whenever I

interviewed for a job,

I would be offered it

usually on the spot.

Since this has happened

And since people

can google my name,

I'm finding that when

I send my credentials,

I do get interviews--

I get many interviews--

But I never get

offered a job.

I don't tell them

about my--

About my, uh,

"science sin."

[bell tolling]

I was only trying to teach

what the university stands for,

Which is academic freedom.

Egnor:
there's nothing

to be learned in neurosurgery

By assuming

an accidental origin

For the parts of the brain

that we work on.

Stein:
it wasn't

just biologists

Who were feeling

the darwinist wrath.

When neurosurgeon

michael egnor

Wrote an essay

to high school students

Saying doctors didn't need

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