Those fuel-lish science teachers!
By Vivek Krishnamurthy
Thank goodness for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its courage to report stories that the mainline American media won't touch. This morning on the The Current, host Anna-Maria Tremonti reported on the refusal of the National Science Teachers Association to accept 50,000 free DVD's of Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The reason? The NSTA feared offending those climate-change deniers at ExxonMobil who are among the association's major backers.
If that isn't disturbing enough, the NSTA graciously accepted tens of thousands of free copies of an "educational" video called "Fuel-less: You Can't be Cool Without Fuel." This gem, a "spoof" of Clueless produced by the brilliant scientists working at the American Petroleum Institute, is so outrageously misleading that it seems right out of an episode of The Simpsons. Is it any wonder that we have so many climate change skeptics in this country, when even our science teachers allow their integrity to be purchased for a few petro-dollars?
I caught the audio as an MP3 and you can listen to the report and share in the outrage. Or you can visit the API site and watch the 16-minute video yourself.
Thank goodness for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its courage to report stories that the mainline American media won't touch. This morning on the The Current, host Anna-Maria Tremonti reported on the refusal of the National Science Teachers Association to accept 50,000 free DVD's of Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The reason? The NSTA feared offending those climate-change deniers at ExxonMobil who are among the association's major backers.
If that isn't disturbing enough, the NSTA graciously accepted tens of thousands of free copies of an "educational" video called "Fuel-less: You Can't be Cool Without Fuel." This gem, a "spoof" of Clueless produced by the brilliant scientists working at the American Petroleum Institute, is so outrageously misleading that it seems right out of an episode of The Simpsons. Is it any wonder that we have so many climate change skeptics in this country, when even our science teachers allow their integrity to be purchased for a few petro-dollars?
I caught the audio as an MP3 and you can listen to the report and share in the outrage. Or you can visit the API site and watch the 16-minute video yourself.
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12:08 AM
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