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Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released April 18^th called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but some suggest that on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design. A quick search of the web provides the background: the production company for the film is the same that produced The Passion of the Christ ; its CEO and one of the film's producers recently questioned the Godliness of the administration at Baylor University over an ID-related incident; and the producers used Stein as the narrator specifically because he wasn't "overtly religious."Professor Paul Zachary Myers at the University of Minnesota is one of the scientists interviewed for the film. He's recently been caught up in a blog exchange with the film's producers regarding this and other topics to do with the movie. Read the arguments and decide for yourself whether you'll see the film. You can find the producer's first post here followed by Myer's response, followed by the producer's response. Even Bill O'Reilly interviewed Stein.

So, what do you think? What are your thoughts of the controversies?

Is there really an attack on the freedom of speech in today's academia and does a hostile climate exist for scientists who are conservative?

Will you watch "Expelled" when it hits theaters?

Click here to find out where Expelled is playing at a theater near you.