Discovery Institute says "Teach the Controversy" on global warming.

[yellowcanine]

http://ncse.com/news/2013/03/teach-controversy-comes-to-climate-science-0014758

Up to their old tricks and fresh from the "Creation Science" wars, the Discovery Institute is now attempting to give Climate Change Deniers cover by calling for schools to teach "both sides" of global warming.

[JoePhilly]

1. "Teach the Controversy" is also "fresh" from the Tobacco wars.

[yellowcanine]

2. You are exactly correct. Good catch. But this may be the first example of an organization

dedicated to spreading propaganda in one area using the same techniques in a completely different area. One wonders though if careful research might not turn up some of the same actors in all of the "teach the controversy" topics. Be a good thesis topic for a political science graduate student.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2008/11/teaching-the-controversy/

[sakabatou]

3. Again? Yeesh.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I agree

If teachers are allowed and encouraged to teach where the weight of scientific opinion lies and to what degree it's on one side.

[RainDog]

5. The controversy is that they are part of public life

the controversy is that an organization that's so idiotic gets any respect.

they're the equivalent of a bunch of people who claim satan anal probed them while they ate at the Olive Garden.

[NC_Nurse]

6. What controversy?

Denial is not a justified argument. Nor is loss of profits for big oil/coal.

[denverbill]

7. I think global warming is caused by God farting on us because we're not worthy.

I demand that also be taught in schools. There are more than two sides to global warming. You must teach them all, not just the one accepted by 98% of climate scientists, and 100% of climate scientists who are actual scientists and not being paid by fossil fuel companies.

[yellowcanine]

8. That is actually not that far off from the Raptureistas.

Basically the world burns up in the end I believe, lakes of fire, fire and brimstone raining down, etc.