{"id":25959,"date":"2009-02-04T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/04\/ben-stein-shunned-by-academy\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:18:42","slug":"ben-stein-shunned-by-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/ben-stein-shunned-by-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stein Shunned by Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And by &#8220;academy&#8221; I mean <em>THE<\/em> academy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comedian, economist, speechwriter and game show host Ben Stein withdrew as speaker at the University of Vermont&#8217;s spring commencement ceremonies Monday after concerns arose about his opinions on evolutionary theory, intelligent design and the role of science in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>UVM President Dan Fogel said people on and off campus were unhappy with the university giving Stein an honorary degree and when Fogel expressed those concerns to Stein, he immediately declined the invitation to speak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptz.com\/news\/18629149\/detail.html\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most important part of this story is the following:  It turns out that Stein&#8217;s speaking fee was to be $7,500.  That makes him pretty small time for a guy who&#8217;s been in so many films.  He&#8217;d already lost his grip.  Now, he&#8217;s losing his status.<\/p>\n<p>Good bye, ben:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dwnqqj5Q1BU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by &#8220;academy&#8221; I mean THE academy. Comedian, economist, speechwriter and game show host Ben Stein withdrew as speaker at the University of Vermont&#8217;s spring commencement ceremonies Monday after concerns arose about his opinions on evolutionary theory, intelligent design and the role of science in the Holocaust. UVM President Dan Fogel said people on and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/ben-stein-shunned-by-academy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Stein Shunned by Academy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156,2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6KH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}