Comments on: Tool Time: Heartland, Ted Kaczynski, and Education https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/08/tool-time-heartland-ted-kaczyn/ Tue, 08 May 2012 17:32:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Neil Bates https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/08/tool-time-heartland-ted-kaczyn/#comment-492815 Tue, 08 May 2012 17:32:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/05/08/tool-time-heartland-ted-kaczyn/#comment-492815 The Heartland crowd is truly malicious. Their ads are bad enough, but did you folks hear about their snooty response to criticism (often from the more sensible conservative types) of these ads? They called them “experiments”, acted like they were teasing animals or children with them, etc. Really gross.

I could believe support from Koch of course, even PM, but MicroSoft? Well I am glad to hear their “support” is basically just allowing “non-profits” to have some free SW, IIUC from Greg’s other post. (BTW I have suggested “DumbALECs” to replace the vulgar sounding “Koch-suckers.”)

http://climateconference.heartland.org/our-billboards/
See, you can do and get away with anything by saying you are a humorist, or trying to get attention, or doing “an experiment” etc. Just trash.

]]> By: hoary puccoon https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/08/tool-time-heartland-ted-kaczyn/#comment-492814 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:52:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/05/08/tool-time-heartland-ted-kaczyn/#comment-492814 I’m beginning to think the Heartland Institute is infested with heckuvajob brownies, those malicious but incompetent little sprites that did so much damage during the Bush administration.

Of course, the Heartland brownies did cleverly outsmart Peter Gleick– except that Gleick has all that information they gave him, and every reason to use it against them. I hope the list of Heartland’s corporate sponsors becomes common knowledge, so I know whose products to avoid.

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