What they are doing ought to be illegal but unfortunately is not. So, too, is Ben Stein’s activity in endorsing them.

Secondly, most of the comments I’ve seen about Expelled lead me to believe that almost no one here has actually seen the film. Nowhere does the film argue that Creationism should be taught in schools. Intelligent Design doesn’t even argue that. The film’s argument is that any teacher or scientist that considers ID shouldn’t be fired. Science should be open to considering anything… thats how we learn. Nearly every scientific discovery in history seemed ridiculous to someone at one point or another.

Secondly, someone made it sound like ID and Creationism are one and the same. They are not. People of all religions believe in ID. There are even athiests that believe in ID. ID is simply the idea that maybe there was a “designer” behind the beginning of life.

My guess is that Ben Stein made it up.

as an actual live customer, who pays for the product monthly and has found value, you clearly are on a witch hunt for ben stein. what did any of these people do to?

it’s bad enough there was a falling out over his decision to rep the product, but your misrepresentation of the offer requires a bit more due diligence.

i was able to test drive the product and actually, when i finally saw my reports and scores and incorrect data, i was able to fix it, easily. have you tried calling the credit bureaus for help, lately? didn’t think so.

you claim the score is of no value – but they gave me the scores, which the free annual site you pimped didn’t. they also monitored my credit at all the big bureaus, which i don’t think free annual does either. if the scores have no value, why do the likes of myFICO and the credit bureaus seemed to want to charge me extra for them?

there are tons of products out there – and if you’re going to say it’s a crackpot, why not hit the bureaus on this too? these are THEIR products. they offer them too through their own sites like – freecreditreport.com, truecredit.com, equifax.com – and through every bank known to man.

so do me a favor, stop kicking poor ben when he’s down. if it weren’t for him paving the way for celebrity-esque writers (read: bloggers, to you, youngin’), you wouldn’t have a job.

buck up, dude and learn to do your research better. sensationalism only makes you look weak & uneducated.

What a sad spiral for a man who I, frankly, see as a narcissist, first portraying himself as a playboy and hinting at an open marriage in (one of) his autobiograph(ies), hanging around pretty young things and reportedly chasing them on his game show, then doing a U-turn into buffoonish creationism and self-righteous moralizing, and finally this desperate dance for coins. The predictable fate of the hopelessly mediocre.