Posts tagged: thieves
EXPELLED: Plagiarism Allowed
There’s just not enough controversy (r)evolving around the creationist propaganda film Expelled is there? Well, here’s yet another example of the dishonest tactics being employed by the filmmakers.
A while back there was a bit of a stir over the Discovery (no linkage for you) Institute’s illegitimate use of a magnificent video created by XVIVO on behalf of Harvard University’s Biovisions called The Inner Life of the Cell (watch here).
After realizing they can’t take copyrighted material, strip it of its credits, and narration and stick in their own creationism-filled nonsense, I guess these morons decided the next best thing was to have some crap video team remake the Harvard video, scene-by-scene, and then put their creationism-filled narration on top of it. And that’s exactly what they did. Here’s an image of the offending scene side-by-side with the original Harvard scene.
The film Expelled contains this scene-by-scene duplication of the Biovisions masterpiece and as usual for the creadesign proponentists, they left a few transitional fossils in their wake. ERV points out in her recent presentation at the Oklahoma Americans United for the Separation of Church and State conference there are at least a dozen different ways a paramecium can move across a microtubule and how odd it is that the Expelled video uses the exact same visualization of motion as the Harvard video. It’s even been pointed out by some bloggers within the science community that the motion depicted in the original video isn’t even a good example of actual molecule movement and cellular activity. So, just like in High School, the proof that they copied is in the copying of errors as well as the facts.
It’s pretty clear to myself and many others that the filmmakers behind Expelled have not a shred of honesty running in their veins. I’m unsure as to how much legal action was pursued after the original copyright infringement, but ERV is moving against this blatant example of video plagiarism with a little letter. I’m sure they’ll backpedal and divert attention like always but it will still be fun to watch them scatter for answers. Probably more fun that watching Expelled itself.
Via: ERV
Craigslist Thieves Nabbed
A couple named Brandon and Amber Herbert have been apprehended and identified as the originators of the craigslist post that left Robert Sallisbury of Oregon nearly possessionless. The two placed an ad on craigslist that the home of Sallisbury had been abandoned and all his belongings were up for grabs. They then joined in with the rioting mob to get to two horse saddles. That’s right. They placed an ad that cost a man most of his house belongings for two horse saddles.
I wrote my first post under the impression that the entire job had been done as a form of revenge upon Mr. Sallisbury from someone holding a serious grudge. I titled my post “How Far Would You Go?” … Oddly enough, I think the title still stands. I mean, how far would you go to get ahold of two fargin horse saddles?
Via: TechCrunch
