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Bast said he was not shocked that four in 10 teachers mention or advocate con- <br />trarian views, though he hesitated to take credit for it. <br />"Science teachers are smart. Smarter than the average reporter. Smarter than the <br />average environmental activist ;" he said. <br />Bast said the organization has already received several messages from teachers <br />who appreciated the information, or asked for a Heartland speaker to come to <br />class. <br />But the campaign is not being well received by everyone. <br />Lori Baker, a sixth -grade science teacher at North Putnam Middle School in <br />Roachdale, Indiana, found the package in her school mailbox and was dismayed <br />by its contents. "I read quite a bit of the book, actually, and it was extremely <br />frustrating. It's an attempt to sound science literate, but there's very little actual <br />data;' she said. <br />Baker pointed to the first paragraph of the foreword, written by Marita Noon, <br />executive director of Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy, a nonprofit and <br />lobbying group that advocates for the use of fossil fuels. In it, Noon writes that <br />Obama's description (http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/us/climate-change-us- <br />obama/) of climate change as the greatest threat facing mankind is "laughable" <br />.................... ............................... <br />at a time when "ISIS is beheading innocent people" <br />