The serious professional libertarian fools at The Heartland Institute grouptthink tank are not April Fools. They have done this year-round for decades. And now they have been taken to the cleaners by their own grifting President, Frank Lasée.
The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984 and based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The Institute conducts work on issues including education reform, government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, information technology, and free-market environmentalism.
In March 2017, the Institute's program the Center for Transforming Education began an unsolicited mailing of the Institute's book Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming and a companion DVD to all 200,000 K-12 science teachers in the U. S., with a cover letter giving a link to an online course planning guide. The material is not science and was intended to confuse teachers, according to the National Center for Science Education.[52][92][93]
Spam, voodoo, junk science, spam, Fossil Foolism, Internet Conspiracy Theories, spam, spam, lies, damned lies, spam with an egg on top, and spam.
Rather than invest scarce world resources in a quixotic campaign based on politicized and unreliable science, world leaders would do well to turn their attention to the real problems their people and their planet face.
The book is available as a PDF from Heartland.
The Heartland Institute has defended its decision to send the book to educators against criticism by three liberal Congressmen (see here, and here) and the National Science Teachers Association (see here). We’ve also responded to a ‘Spanish Inquisition-style’ letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sent by radical Democratic U.S. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren, Brian Schatz, and Edward Markey (see here).
Yes, all right, we know about you. Although I must say, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
Back to Wikipedia:
In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to attempt to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke and to lobby against smoking bans.[3][4]:233–34[5] Since the 2000s, the Heartland Institute has been a leading promoter of climate change denial.[6][7] It rejects the scientific consensus on climate change,[8] and says that policies to fight it would be damaging to the economy.[9]
Damaging to their grift, certainly.