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I haven’t seen the film yet (although I have read quite a few articles pro and con on the film), but I have read the article by Meyer allowed through by Sternberg.
It offers no new ideas, facts, or research (which is what such journals are FOR). It’s mostly a long history lesson and diatribe against macro-evolution. In the process it covers embryology, information theory, the Cambrian Explosion, population genetics, etc which brings up another problem – the journal that Sternberg was editor of is about *taxonomy*. (The title of the article does include the word “taxonomic”, I guess to help people not notice how inappropriate the article was for that journal).

Here’s an example of the journal. Although you’d have to sign up to read the journals articles, you can at least see the titles and an abstract:
http://www.bioone.org/toc/pbsw/122/1?cookieSet=1

Feel free to scroll through past issues as well. Notice that virtually all the articles it publishes are just descriptions of new species and genera found, or sometimes redescriptions of known species or ideas on reclassifying species, etc.

So not only was the article inappropriate for ANY science journal, it was PARTICULARLY inappropriate for THAT journal.

So the people complaining about the article were hardly trying to suppress free thought. In fact, that the article was pro-ID is the ONLY reason it saw the light of day... if it was pro-evolution NO journal would have published it - particularly the journal in question.

Here’s an example of the journal

What is novel about this from your link?

The Stephen H. Long Expedition (1819–1820), Titian R. Peale's Field Illustrations, and The Lost Holotypes of The North American Shrews Sorex Brevicaudus Say and Sorex Parvus Say (Mammalia: Soricidae) from The Philadelphia Museum

And so what if it was inappropriate for the journal. His "position" at the Smithsonian was not measured by any particular editing function for any particular magazine. It was in no way related to the Smithsonian. NCSE raised the issue there after it hunted him down following the publication of Meyer's paper.

[[embryology, information theory, the Cambrian Explosion, population genetics, etc]]

Pretty powerful evidence agaisnt Macroevolution coupled along with mathematics, biological evidences, the second law- pretty devestating if you ask me

[[So not only was the article inappropriate for ANY science journal,]]

Funny, I thought scientific journals covered embryology, information theory, the Cambrian Explosion, population genetics, etc