Ben Stein, Anti Science Rant.

All I can think is that the use of Clear Eyes must cause brain damage.
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Stein went on a Trinity Broadcasting Network recently and had this to say….

Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.
Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.

Maybe Mr Stein had not had a chance to notice, that medical science alone has done more to alleviate the suffering of mankind than all the religious and political movements combined. Religion stood in the way of such well founded scientific advances like surgery because it was felt to be defiling god’s temple. The church would block the use of anesthesia because pain was considered punishment from god for some sin man committed.

When it come to barbarism no one hold a candle to religion, not even the Nazis, From christian crusades to muslim jihads killing the heretic seems to be a cornerstone of religious belief.

The illogical nature of Ben’s argument is clear, next thing he will be saying is mathematics is evil because the Nazis also used math to build guns and airplanes.

He plays the part of the insightful thinker but then makes statements that would make the people who brought you the dark ages proud.

Bong Hits for Truth

You got to be amazed at the cognitive train wreck that is the 9/11 truth movement. And nothing demonstrates that more than the loopy list of famous truthers. Charley Sheen, Rosie O’Donnell, some dude from Blink 182, Willie Nelson,

AND NOW!………. Tommy Chong??????
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And these idiots proudly advertise the fact this old stoner has jumped on bandwagon. Kind of desperate for members I guess.

So this made me think of a new game based on the Celebrity Dead Pool thing where you try and decide which famous person will die next. This would be the “Celebrity Brain Dead Pool”. Which cognitively challenged celebrity will be the next to drink the 9/11 truth Kool aid?

The REAL Truth?… It WAS a Passenger Jet

The only way the conspiracy theorist nut jobs can promote their silly ideas about 9/11 being an inside job is basically to lie….. And the best way to lie is to “Quote Mine”. Take witness testimony and deliberately clip out the parts of what they said to make it more inline with the hypothesis you are trying to sell.

Mike Walters, a USA Today reporter who witnessed the plane crashing into the Pentagon tells how his story was deliberately taken out of context by the “truth” people.

Flunked at MySpace

Got a laugh when someone at the JREF Forum took my redesigned “FLUNKED” posted and but it on the Expelled the Movement at MySpace page

Been up for the whole day.
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A “DUH” Moment for the Creationist

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The 9/11 Truth movement is dying, people are realizing the utter bankruptcy of these morons in black and truthers are fast becoming nothing but fodder for jokes. But there is certainly no lack of silly ideas floating around in the American tableau.

When it comes to overt stupidity few can match the 9/11 truth community, but their brothers in anti science nonsense, the creationist. You have no doubt been hearing a lot about a movie called “Expelled” staring Ben Stein. Another one of those “conspiracy” movies, unlike the plethora of 9/11 conspiracy movies this one claims the big bad scientific community conspired to keep Intelligent Design out of the classroom and are keeping the “truth” of creation from the general public. The idea a group of people would take the word of an economist like Stein on biological science is just as loony as thuthers believing the insights of a theologian like David Ray Griffin on the subject of structural engineering.

Few don’t know this movie had a working title called “Crossroads” and the producer Mark Mathis went as far as to create a production company with it’s own web site to hide the fact the film was going to be a hit piece on evolution. Using the Crossroads title producers started interviewing leading scientist, well that is until word got out that “Crossroads” was actually going to be Premise Media’s ” Expelled”. Wow, Odd behavior for people who claim to be honest god fearing Christians, right? Nearly all the scientists who appear in Expelled including PZ Meyers, Richard Dawkins, Eugenie Scott and Michael Shermer say they were misled from the beginning about the subject of the film.

The film started to show up at test showing, with most of the tickets being distributed through various religious/creationist organizations. You would think that being in the film would guarantee one an invite but many of the scientist who were now in the film were NOT invited, you could say the were “Pre-Expelled”. This came to a rather comical head in what has been called the “Good Friday Fiasco”. PZ Myers found out where invites to the test screenings could be had and requested tickets to a showing of the film, and he did receives the invites for himself and his guest, BUT, while standing in line to get in he was asked to leave! Well PZ certainly DID see the humor in this! and being one of the country’s most popular bloggers he got out his laptop, found a Wi-Fi connection and stared to blog about being Expelled from Expelled. right then and there while the movie was screened.

BUT… and this is the good part… one of Myers’s guest was none other than British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, popular science writer and Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins. He was allowed into the movie. Word is that producer Mark Mathis turned rather pail when Dawkins stood up to ask his questions during a question and answer session. The creationist are now trying to claim that by using his real name Clinton Richard Dawkins he was deliberately deceitful. Oh the irony.

So Dawkins got to see the movie and review it. Lying for Jesus? by Richard Dawkins

For more on this turkey of a movie see Expelled Exosed, Flunked, NOT Expelled

And the Laughs just keep on Coming

The only saving grace of the 9/11 conspiracy theorist nut jobs is they’re great fodder for jokes and ridicule. For years any joke dealing with the subject of 9/11 was far too close to a sore spot, but the American people have a wonderful way of finding humor in even the worst tragedy.

Enter the 9/11 Truth movement. You can’t help but laugh when the clown car of 9/11 truth pulls up and out spills the looniest bunch of Bozos you have ever seen, festooned in black Inside Job t-shirts, and shouting “Free Fall”. And for a real laugh look at the “Space Beam Weapon” crowd.

The Onion News Network.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says

Bill Maher takes a Stab at the Truther Fools Again.

Well when you are hated by conservatives, the religious and the loony left, you have to be doing something right. Comedian Bill Maher again takes a stab at truther loons.

Speaking on the subject of the ‘darkness of ignorance” and the “stubbornly ill informed”
Bill had this to say on the conservatives portraying Barack Obama as a Secret Muslim.
“Is Obama a Muslim”
“NO HE ISN’T”
“Was Sadam behind 9/11?”
“NO HE WASN’T”
“and while we are at it,”
“NEITHER WAS BUSH”
“How do we know Bush wasn’t behind 9/11?” “Because it WORKED, AND it involved PLANNING.”

This Deserves Repeating

Progressive George Monbiot has this to say about truthers.

“Why do I bother with these morons? Because they are destroying the movements which some of us have spent a long time trying to build. Those of us who believe that the crucial global issues - climate change, the Iraq war, nuclear proliferation, inequality - are insufficiently debated in parliament or congress; that corporate power stands too heavily on democracy; that war criminals, cheats and liars are not being held to account, have invested our efforts in movements outside the mainstream political process. These, we are now discovering, are peculiarly susceptible to this epidemic of gibberish.

The obvious corollorary to the belief that the Bush administration is all-powerful is that the rest of us are completely powerless. In fact it seems to me that the purpose of the “9/11 truth movement” is to be powerless. The omnipotence of the Bush regime is the coward’s fantasy, an excuse for inaction used by those who don’t have the stomach to engage in real political fights.”

Bayoneting A Scarecrow
Posted February 20, 2007
The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th February 2007

“911 TRUTH IS A FAITH BASED INITIATIVE”

How are Truthers like their conservative counterpart, The Creationist?

Neither of them have the benefit of real science to back up their screwball claims so they rely on the “just asking questions” tactic, Why go through the bother of having to create and defend an conception when it is far simpler to thy and find hole in the other sides concepts and then force you nonexistent “god” into those holes. “God of the Gaps” its called.

Like creationist who also have no real scientist to back up their claims they create their own experts. Suddenly theologians become biologist in the same way theologians become structural engineers and controlled demolition experts with 9/11 denial movement. It fools no one because at the end of the day these guy are only experts on faith NOT the real physical world. Just look at patriotsquestion911.com and note how many are such things as Professors of religious studies and theology.

David Ray Griffin, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD – Professor Emerita of Feminist Theology
Kevin Barrett, PhD – Lecturer on Islamic Studies,
Blair Gadsby, MA – Adjunct Faculty, Religious Studies
John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD – Professor Emeritus of Theology
James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion
Carter Heyward, PhD – Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology
James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion
Douglas Sturm, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and Political Science
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD – Professor Emerita of Theology
Graeme MacQueen, PhD – Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Sean Kelly, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and Religion
John Milbank, PhD – Professor in Religion, Politics, and Ethics
James K. Powell II, PhD – Visiting Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies
Richard A. Horsley, PhD – Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Former Chair of the Department of the Study of Religion
Clark A. Kucheman, PhD – Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Christian Ethics, Claremont McKenna College
Rev. David P. Polk, PhD – Former Vice President of Christian Board
Richard Foltz , PhD – Associate Professor of Religion,

Just like George Bush and his fellow anti-science anti-intellectual conservatives movement, these so called seekers of truth are pushing a fact-less belief system.

“911 TRUTH IS A FAITH BASED INITIATIVE”

As a progressive I feel like I am stuck between the Torquemada’s of the conservative right and the Luddites of the agenda driven left.