Free The Animal

I blogged about this “quackumentary” before, and, well, it’s not like this ought to be any great surprise. If he had known the film’s premise, Dr. Dawkins said in an e-mail message, he would never have appeared in it. “At no time was I given the slightest clue that these people were a creationist front,” he said. Eugenie C. Scott, a physical anthropologist who heads the National Center for Science Education, said she agreed to be filmed after receiving what she described as a deceptive invitation. “I have certainly been taped by people and appeared in productions where people’s views are different than mine, and that’s fine,” Dr. Scott said, adding that she would have appeared in the film anyway. “I just expect people to be honest with me, and they weren’t.” It figures, and I know from what I’ve seen from Dawkins’ own productions that he is very frank with those he interviews. Then there’s shows like Bullshit!, where Penn has several times remarked that in spite of it appearing that some people who get ridiculed mustn’t of had a clue of what they were in for, the producers are perfectly upfront about what they are doing and even…

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