Subverting Science Class: Exxoning Science Teachers

Steven D at Booman Tribune:

[...]I'm not talking about that idiotic Senator Inhofe who thinks global warming is a hoax perpetrated by evil, liberal, atheistic scientists trying to fraudulently obtain grant monies from the government. He's merely laughable.

No, I'm talking about a development that is much more insidious and disturbing -- the Exxoning of America's Science Teachers (from Laurie David's op-ed in The Washington Post):

At hundreds of screenings this year of "An Inconvenient Truth," the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie.

The producers of former vice president Al Gore's film about global warming, myself included, certainly agreed. So the company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in their classrooms. It seemed like a no-brainer.

The teachers had a different idea: Thanks but no thanks, they said.

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