Laurie David, who produced Al Gore's recent film "An Inconvenient Truth," wonders why the National Science Teachers Association rejected 50,000 free DVDs of the documentary for classroom use, yet it accepts millions of dollars in donations from Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil and other corporations seeking to expose students to what she regards as biased material promoting the firms' interests.
It's bad enough when a company tries to sell junk science to a bunch of grown-ups. But, like a tobacco company using cartoons to peddle cigarettes, Exxon Mobil is going after our kids, too.
And it has been doing so for longer than you may think. NSTA says it has received $6 million from the company since 1996, mostly for the association's "Building a Presence for Science" program, an electronic networking initiative intended to "bring standards-based teaching and learning" into schools, according to the NSTA Web site. Exxon Mobil has a representative on the group's corporate advisory board. And in 2003, NSTA gave the company an award for its commitment to science education.
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