Countercultural Rebels with Tickets to Expelled
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Expelled Reviews--
The Characters--
- Hear Richard Sternberg and Caroline Crocker on NPR
- The Branding of a Heretic: Are Religious Scientists Unwelcome at the Smithsonian?
"...one scientist has had his career all but ruined...." - U. S. Office of Special Counsel Review
"Our preliminary investigation indicates that retaliation came in many forms. It came in the form of attempts to change your working conditions.... During the process you were personally investigated and your professional competence was attacked. Misinformation was disseminated throughout the SI and to outside sources. The allegations against you were later determined to be false. It is also clear that a hostile work environment was created with the ultimate goal of forcing you out." - Editor Explains Reasons for 'Intelligent Design' Article (Washington Post)
"Smithsonian scientists had no choice but to explore Sternberg's religious beliefs." - Intolerance and the Politicization of Science at the Smithsonian (House of Representatives)
"The staff investigation has uncovered compelling evidence that Dr. Sternberg's civil and constitutional rights were violated by Smithsonian officials. Moreover, the agency's top officials—Secretary Lawrence Small and Deputy Secretary Sheila Burke—have shown themselves completely unwilling to rectify the wrongs that were done or even to genuinely investigate the wrongdoing."
- Excerpts from E-mails
- More on those E-mails
(Dr. Hector Avalos states both, "The nature of 'the presence at ISU' was left unspecified in order not to draw attention specifically to Dr. Gonzalez" and "The statement...was in no way targeted specifically at Gonzalez.")
“Philanthropy...encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant."--Margaret Sanger