Remember how Spore creator Will Wright said that his alien evolution sim would help stimulate interest in science? Well a bunch of real scientists have just given the game a failing grade. The magazine Science (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) has posted up an extensive article on the game on its web site where it states, ",...the problem isn't just that Spore dumbs down the science or gets a few things wrong--it's meant to be a game, after all--but rather, it gets most of biology badly, needlessly, and often bizarrely wrong." The article goes into quite a lot of detail of what's wrong with Spore, both as a game and as the way it protrays real science.

Not only do these scientists feel that Spore is a disservice to the things it's supposed to champion, some were upset that they were interviewed for a documentary about the game that was included as a DVD in the Spore Galactic Edition (and also shown on the National Geographic Channel). According to the article, "They said they had been led to believe that the interviews were for a straight documentary about 'developmental evolutionary' science rather than a video promoting a computer game."