alexseanchai | (no subject)

Signal boost: if you're interested in stopping the spread of young-earth creationism and the accompanying anti-science fervor, the company that made the pro-YEC documentary Expelled is auctioning off the rights to the film and production materials (including the interviews with the scientists in the film, the way they were before the editors got at them), and TalkOrigins is raising funds to buy the rights to Expelled. We're hoping that by pooling our resources, we can beat whatever the fuck the reserve price is and either win the rights to the film (whereupon we can do all sorts of fun things with it) or put a serious dent in the YEC side's resources by forcing them to outbid us.

This one's kind of urgent, folks--the auction's Tuesday, and because Paypal has a delay between the donors sending the money and TalkOrigins receiving it, only donations made before a given time Monday will be counted into the maximum bid TalkOrigins makes. Also, this isn't Kickstarter, so donations will not be returned if we don't win, but it's TalkOrigins. Halting the spread of disinformation is a good cause.