Ben Stein’s Expelled - No Integrity Displayed:: In the new science-bashing movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein and the rest of the filmmakers sincerely and seriously argue that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution paved the way for the Holocaust. By “seriously,” I mean that Ben Stein acts grief-stricken and the director juxtaposes quotes from evolutionary biologists with archival newsreel clips from Hitler’s Reich. Prepare for an intellectual night at the cinema. [Scientific American]
Menopause stops female competition: The British team that sets out the new theory of how evolution shaped the fertility of women also believes it could yield clues to the genetic basis of premature menopause and other diseases of low fertility. [Telegraph]
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