{"id":333,"date":"2008-01-27T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/01\/27\/ben-stein-movie-takes-on-free-speech-suppression-in-academia\/"},"modified":"2008-01-27T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T00:44:08","slug":"ben-stein-movie-takes-on-free-speech-suppression-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/ben-stein-movie-takes-on-free-speech-suppression-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stein movie takes on free speech suppression in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9ekrL6m-_jA&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<ins dateTime=\"2008-01-26T19:38:49+00:00\"><\/ins><ins dateTime=\"2008-01-26T19:38:49+00:00\"><\/ins>Ben Stein, in the new film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expelledthemovie.com\/\">EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His heroic and, at times, shocking journey confronting the world&#8217;s top scientists, educators and philosophers, regarding the persecution of the many by an elite few. Question Darwinism and your freedom of speech is squelched!<\/p>\n<p>Coming to a theater near you Spring 2008<\/p>\n<p>Ben travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth&#8230;that bewilders him, then angers him&#8230;and then spurs him to action!<\/p>\n<p>Ben realizes that he has been &#8220;Expelled,&#8221; and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired &#8211; for the &#8220;crime&#8221; of merely believing that there might be evidence of &#8220;design&#8221; in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.<br \/>\nTo which Ben Says: &#8220;Enough!&#8221; And then gets busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stein, in the new film EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed His heroic and, at times, shocking journey confronting the world&#8217;s top scientists, educators and philosophers, regarding the persecution of the many by an elite few. Question Darwinism and your freedom of speech is squelched! Coming to a theater near you Spring 2008 Ben travels the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-5n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}