Cuttlefish was feeling upset that a piece of creationist drivel was ranking higher in the Google search results for the word “cuttlefish” than his own site, so in a gesture of amity, I’m doing my bit to help. Restore justice, truth and verse to the Network: link to Cuttlefish today!
And while we’re thinking about search results, Googling for {expelled movie} is finally bringing up some sensible results for Ben Stein’s monument to dishonesty, hatred and incompetence, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. One instance of the trailer sends the reader to Richard Dawkins’s website, which is a promising start. Then we’ve got a Digg entry for Phil Plait’s demolition of Expelled, and a fairly old post — last September — from the Bad Idea Blog, pointing out the dishonesty of Expelled‘s producer.
The “sponsored links” over on the side gives me RationalWiki’s debunking of Expelled promo material. That’s also good. Notice, however, what’s missing?
The official site of the National Center for Science Education, devoted to debunking the movie — Expelled Exposed — doesn’t appear in the first one hundred results. In fact, as of right now, it doesn’t appear until result 280.
We need to fix this.
We’re trusting the NCSE with the big responsibility of maintaining a clear and informative central site for this subject. I think they’re up for it; I also think, gosh darn it, they need to know we care.
I’ve been yammering about this for awhile. We need the Expelled Exposed site up on the first page somewhere at least. For the longest time it’s been nothing but my outdated article on Braylor and a DIGG to Phil rather than his actual posts (one thing I REALLY hate about sites like DIGG).
Well, here’s hoping that enough of us yammering about the problem is as good as fixing it.
I just checked it again, and now it’s at 69. :)
The NSCE site, that is.
What’s that site again? The one which exposes that expelled movie you say?
Careful though guys. Apparently our Darwinist eblasts haven’t wreaked enough havoc yet, because those brave heroes over at Expelled are fighting on…