Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Science Teachers "Inconveniently" Refuse Free DVD's

Heh. So the National Science Teachers Association takes a pass on free DVD's of An Inconvenient Truth because they viewed the "documentary" as an advocacy film, and Laurie David, one of the producers, can only see some nefarious political reasons for the refusal. Science teachers are in the back pockets of Big Oil! Did she not even consider that high school science teachers may want to teach the basic concepts of chemistry, biology, and physics before presenting the conclusions of some computer models in an emerging science? Quantum mechanics has been around for 80 years, and I didn't get to really understand it until I had the math and physics background taught in lower division college classes. How is an interdisciplinary field studies topic to be taught in high school or lower grades, without the students having a basic knowledge of atmospheric convection, thermodynamics, chemical properties of gases, so on and so on and so forth? Nope, it's gotta be backroom deals queering the "sweet deal." Interesting side note: I could not find one hard story on this subject, only progressively biased editorials disseminated from Truthout, a throwaway joke on a low-rated MSNBC show, and blog commentary. Hmm...

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