Thank You De Niro et al

Science Vigilante would love nothing more than to see popular culture embrace science (not mutilate or distort, embrace).

Tribeca Film Fest Sweet on Science from Wired News Online
"De Niro Seeks Science Scripts." That was the header of a press release sent out by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation when it launched a screenplay competition in conjunction with Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival...

Doron Weber, the director of Sloan's Public Understanding of Science and Technology program, includes the Tribeca festival as part of his broader effort to promote pop-cultural depictions of scientists and engineers.
"Instead of just cops, lawyers, teachers, let's have movies about people who are working in science, in occupations that have such a huge impact on our lives," he said. "Let's find ways to tell their stories."

Sweet. Where do we sign up?
The article goes on to say:

In his Super Size Me-style documentary A Flock of Dodos, Randy Olson interviews both proponents of Intelligent Design (a thinly veiled successor to creationism) and evolutionary scientists, none of whom provide a workable strategy for promoting evolution.

Okay folks, we gotta work on that one.

Nancy Schafer, Tribeca's managing director and programmer, said the tension between science and religion is a subject the festival felt compelled to address.

"We have to tell the stories that we feel are important and relevant," she said. "One of those stories is the way science and religion and politics are entwined."