Christian Fundamentalist Goes To Science Museum To ‘Audit’ Its Liberal Bias, Makes Ass Of Self

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A Christian fundamentalist who specializes in “exposing” liberals and scientists (she equates the two) as frauds and doesn’t mind looking really stupid doing it went deep behind enemy lines: She took a field trip to a science museum.

Convinced that Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History was engaged in a left-wing conspiracy to get kids to stop believing in Adam and Eve, Megan Fox (no relation to the “Transformers” actress) grabbed her camera and went there to see if she could ferret out science’s well-known liberal bias.

On her YouTube channel, where she frequently post videos about liberal bias, Fox explained her mission:

“In November 2014, Megan Fox toured the Field Museum’s ‘Evolving Earth’ exhibit to audit it for bias. She found many examples of inconsistencies and the Field Museum’s insistence that people support opinion as fact without proof. The Field Museum pushes certain theories as if they are absolute proven law when that is not how the scientific method works. She found enough bias to show that the people who put this exhibit together at the Field Museum pushed an agenda with quasi-religious overtones: the cult of ‘science’ where the ‘scientists’ are more like high priests pushing a religion instead of using the correct scientific method. Aside from having time machines, there is no way these people can be this certain about things they speculate happened millions of years ago before recorded history.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/24/christian-fundamentalist-goes-science-museum-audit-its-liberal-bias-makes-ass-self-video/



(And her last name is "Fox," too. Ha!)

Edited to add video:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/24/christian-fundamentalist-goes-science-museum-audit-its-liberal-bias-makes-ass-self-video/

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1. I just read that

over at Wonkette. Haven't seen the video yet. Good Lord.

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2. She thinks because she doesn't understand it that no human ever

can understand it.

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3. PZ Myers blogged about this yesterday.

Here: Smug and Stupid

Of course, PZ is a developmental biologist, a professor at Univ. of Minn. so his take down is particularly caustic, with good reason.

A little sample:

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I watched the whole thing, appalled. Here’s a summary of just the first few minutes — if you get sickened by this, you don’t need to watch the rest, it’s all the same.

She’s reading an explanatory panel at the start of the exhibit. It says,

At first, all eukaryotes were single-celled, and many still are today.

This baffles her. She hasn’t heard of this word, “eukaryote”, before — the camera man tells her how to pronounce it — and she’s already stumped.

"This makes no sense. No sense."

What makes no sense? Two billion years ago, all eukaryotes were single-celled. There weren’t any multicellular organisms yet. Frogs, people, salmon, and fruit flies all evolved much, much later. But yeast, paramecia, and algae, all single-celled eukaryotes, still exist today.

<Much more take down at link>

PZ is a gem. And the commenters on PZ's Blog, Pharyngula, rarely disappoint. Highly recommended.

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5. Thanks for this.

After about 100th "this makes no sense," I couldn't take anymore (and I'm the OP!).

I'd much rather read what these folks have to say.

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4. Somehow, the words "Stunningly, breathtakingly

stupid" don't even begin to describe the arrogant ignorance of this perpetually low-information soul.