However, others who may not know much about this issue may have just come to check out the new Ben Stein anti-evolutionist movie. They may not have been that interested in science, but perhaps have heard about the movie from church friends or maybe they simply like Ben Stein. His popularity may have brought in a whole new crowd.
Not necessarily an accurate representation of Stein's point. The point is that academics and "big science" use bullying tactics to "win" their argument, instead of openly engaging all possible directions their observations could take them.
Same tactics that are used to keep conservative ideology stifled in academia.