{"id":18121,"date":"2013-11-13T17:54:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18121"},"modified":"2013-11-13T17:54:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T23:54:36","slug":"help-ncse-nail-down-the-heartland-institutes-latest-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/help-ncse-nail-down-the-heartland-institutes-latest-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Help NCSE Nail Down The Heartland Institute’s Latest Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

That nefarious leech of an organization, the Heartland Institute<\/a>, the one that put up the billboards implying that people who think climate change is important are mad bombers, has done something really offensive, again. They made a fake packet of information with fake stuff about climate change and sent it to teachers and other educators, as well as graduate students, to try to trick them into passing the lies and deceptions on to their students. According to the National Center for Science Education<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Around Halloween, thousands of science teachers, science professors, and graduate students received copies of a slick packet attacking climate science. A prominent climate change denial group sent teachers a booklet which mimics a real scientific report, and a cover letter slyly urging recipients to “use that work to inform your thinking\u2014and your students\u2014on this important issue.”NIPCC mailing contents, including envelope, cover letter from Diane Carol Bast, “Climate Change Reconsidered II” booklet, and a postcard offering a chance to “Win $500”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The NCSE is trying to assess how bad the damage is and they would like your help. Please CLICK HERE<\/a> and visit the NCSE sit and let them know whether or not you receive the package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That nefarious leech of an organization, the Heartland Institute, the one that put up the billboards implying that people who think climate change is important are mad bombers, has done something really offensive, again. They made a fake packet of information with fake stuff about climate change and sent it to teachers and other educators, … Continue reading Help NCSE Nail Down The Heartland Institute’s Latest Trick<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[856,1841,1882,3080],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Ih","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}