Michael Egnor is an American pediatric neurosurgeon, advocate of the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design and blogger at the Discovery Institute.
"[11] Egnor later published a series of comprehensive articles on Discovery Institute responding to Coyne's remarks.
In March 2007, when the Alliance for Science sponsored an essay contest for high school students on the topic "Why I would want my doctor to have studied evolution," Egnor responded by posting an essay on the Discovery Institute's intelligent design blog claiming that evolution was irrelevant to medicine.
In the film, Ben Stein describes this as "Darwinists were quick to try and exterminate this new threat," and Egnor says he was shocked by the "viciousness" and "baseness" of the response.
The website Expelled Exposed, created by the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), responded by saying that Egnor must never have been on the Internet before.