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Get Lamp trailer

Jason has just released a new trailer for Get Lamp. I’ve actually watched the full BBS Documentary a couple of times, which may say something about me, but I actually got Robin to watch a bunch of it with me, which probably says something about how well Jason makes documentaries. (I’ve I’m not […]


Richard Dawkins reviews Expelled

The whole tone of the film is whiny, paranoid — pathetic really. The narrator is somebody called Ben Stein. I had not heard of him, but apparently he is well known to Americans, for it is hard to see why else he would have been chosen to front the film. He certainly can’t have been […]


Video interview about getting Expelled from Expelled

You know that Ben Stein creationism movie we talked about before? Here’s a video of PZ Myers talking with Richard Dawkins about how Myers got Expelled from a screening of Expelled, but they let in his guest Richard Dawkins. Slick PR work there!


Ben Stein’s Conspiracy Theories

Check it out: EXPELLED, No Intelligence Allowed in which Ben Stein villanizes the scientific community for making fun of creationism. It’s odd that someone who is known as the ultimate nerd would claim that we don’t have enough religion in this country guiding the debate. I’m sure all of the images of Nazi […]


King of Wrong redux

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the King Of Kong. Jason Scott ended up writing a insanely long follow-up about it later, which I thought had pretty much been the end of it.
But, about a week ago I got an email from Ed Cunningham, the producer of King of Kong. He […]


The King Of Wrong

Bad news over here at Benchcoach HQ: The King Of Kong has been reviewed and trashed by jason Scott, who you all might remember from the BBS Documentary. Reading through the distortions and out-right lies made by the creators of the film — done to make the movie a better viewing with complete disregard […]


Century of the Self by Adam Curtis

This is a series about how Sigmund Freud’s ideas about the unconscious mind have been used by those in power to control the masses in an age of democracy.
Each part is about an hour.
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