SocraticGadfly: ExxonMobil: Buying off high school science teachers on global warming

December 01, 2006

ExxonMobil: Buying off high school science teachers on global warming

The pornographic XX doesn’t want high school science teachers to be well equipped when it comes to climate science. Or, at least, it has a national group of high school science teachers worried enough about its money to engage in self-censorship.

The National Science Teachers’ Association recently rejected an offer of 50,000 free copies of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the popular film on global warming by erstwhile presidential candidate Al Gore.

Why?

Because accepting them might hurt fundraising.

And who’s a major fundraisee for this group?

Three guesses to figure out Double-X marks the spot.

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