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Not everyone who reads the title of this post will agree with it immediately. But via P. Z. Myers<\/a> I learned that it is now a simple matter of indisputable fact in at least one sense: According to the National Center for Science Education<\/a>, the company that produced the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed<\/i>, Premise Media Holdings, has filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

The NCSE created a web site<\/a> addressing some of the movie\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"