The perils of publicity

From the July issue of the History of Science Society newsletter:

In Darwin Year 2009 many historians have helped to bring our subject to the general public. Yet we [Peter Bowler, Janet Browne, Sandra Herbert] are writing to the Newsletter with a cautionary tale. We have recently been featured in a documentary film, "The Voyage that Shook the World," produced by Fathom Media of Australia and directed by Stephen Murray of Synergy Films, New Zealand. We were led to believe that the movie was being made to be shown as an educational film on Australian broadcast television and possibly elsewhere. Fathom Media was revealed to be a subsidiary of Creation Ministries International when publicity for the movie began to appear on the internet. We were alerted to the true nature of the movie by James Williams of the University of Sussex shortly before its release in about April of this year.

According to IMDb "The Voyage that Shook the World" is the only movie that Fathom Media has ever produced. And it lists "The Voyage that Shook the World" as Stephen Murray's only film.