SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The April 18 release of the Ben Stein documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” may be highlighting accusations of widespread censorship involving Intelligent Design, but professors and attorneys say the bias goes much wider.
Kellum, who works in ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom, said the academic bias involves “any thought, any idea that would cut across the grain of the leftist view.
“They exalt the idea of tolerance,” he said. “There is absolutely no tolerance...”
“The problem with public universities today is that it’s departed largely from what it was supposed to be—a place to teach students to think, a marketplace for ideas,” Kellum said. “Instead, what we see today is more of a place of indoctrination, an incubator for leftist thought. They have very little patience for any view other than their own...”
Christians and science
Paul Nelson, a biology professor at Biola University, agrees, calling the practice “old fashioned bullying.” Nelson was among numerous academics who were interviewed and featured in the Expelled movie.
“It runs right across all the disciplines,” he said. “Dissension on some topics is just not tolerated.
Even so, he said he’s most personally acquainted with censorship involving Intelligent Design and science.
“There is a view that science and religious faith are inherently hostile to each other,” he said. “I think that is not historically accurate and reflected in the scientists that I know best in 2008. Within the current science community I know many first-rate scientists who are devoutly religious believers.”
He also cited the Christian faith of scientists he labeled as Hall of Famers: Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Louis Pasteur and Georges Cuvier...
Arrest threat
Evan Coyne Maloney, a documentary filmmaker who last year began holding screenings for his full-length work, “Indoctrinate-U,” said Stein’s movie will further elevate debate on the issue.
“The real way to fix the problem isn’t to legislate against it but to continue to expose the intolerance of intellectual freedom,” said Maloney, whose film also explores political correctness and speech codes on a wide variety of topics, including the treatment of the military, conservatives and racial and ethnic policies.
In several instances, Maloney was ordered off of university campuses under threat of arrest. In February, members of the Los Angeles-based pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, were arrested for the third time at Cypress College for distributing literature outside of a “free speech zone.” Although the earlier arrests were dismissed by the District Attorney’s office, the students have filed a civil lawsuit against the College.
“If people become aware of the situation within the schools which they are affiliated, they might not be inclined to write that check,” Maloney said. “Merely asking the questions and speaking out will rectify a lot of these situations...”
“I discovered very quickly on that there was a severe double standard on campus,” he said. “At orientation they would stress tolerance and diversity, but while I was there, there was very little tolerance for intellectual diversity.”
“It was the time when political correctness and speech code, used to stifle open debate, were bursting into the national consciousness...”
OK, someone please tell me again how todays institutions of "higher education" are teaching and NOT indoctrinating! Please tell me again how they are the true bastions of tolerance, free thought and expression. Those on the left like to SAY that they are the open-minded, tolerant, and protectors of free speech, but in reality it only applies if you agree with them.
The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.
This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature...
This has a 70 to 80-year cycle and when the circulation is strong, it creates warmer temperatures in Europe. When it is weak, as it will be over the next decade, temperatures fall. Scientists think that variations of this kind could partly explain the cooling of global average temperatures between the 1940s and 1970s after which temperatures rose again.
Writing in Nature, the scientists said: "Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic [manmade] warming..."
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