Abstract
There was outrage in the science teaching community after a recent initiative by the Heartland Institute (HI). I didn’t know much about this organization, but a quick search tells me that it is a public policy think tank that works on issues such as education reform, taxation, health care, tobacco policy, global warming, and fracking. Its views are conservative. For example, in relation to tobacco policy, it worked with manufacturer Philip Morris to lobby against smoking bans and thus attempted to throw into question the health risks of secondhand smoke. In relation to global warming, HI rejects the scientific consensus and opposes policies to fight it, maintaining they’d damage the economy. So “why the outrage?” you may ask. Organizations such as HI with views not in line with scientific consensus are not uncommon, but generally they are harmless enough because they have little influence and thus are easy to ignore.
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