BEN STEIN PERSECUTED FOR HIS STAND FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Ben Stein, who exposed the vicious intolerance of evolutionary scientists and educators in his brilliant documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, is getting a taste of that intolerance. The following is from Evolution News, August 2009: “Ben Stein probably thought he could do his work on the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and not himself endure the kind of personal attacks that, in the film, he defended Darwin critics against. In fact, what he found was that Darwinism is at the root of the worldview of the materialist Left and even the materialist Right. You can't say or do anything to offend them. You can't even advocate academic freedom. The people who demanded free speech in the 60s and shouted down figures of authority are now the tenured faculty and newsroom editors of the Establishment. And now they are disallowing any criticism at all. So, unlikely as it seems, Ben Stein became a martyr. Richard Dawkins intervened at the University of Vermont last spring to deny Stein a gig as Commencement Speaker. Now Ben has been disingenuously trashed by The New York Times. Typically, when firing Stein as a business columnist the Times couldn't give the actual reason--which is ideological--and instead had to insinuate that he had a ‘conflict of interest.’ That is a joke as well as an insult.”
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