Science friction: teachers org rebuffs 'Inconvenient' offer.(National Science Teachers Association rejects to take DVDs of 'An Inconvenient Truth')(Brief article)

If school teachers want free copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" to show students, producers have 50,000 DVDs they're eager to give away.

In fact, therein lies the problem. Producer Laurie David has been engaged in a highly visible brouhaha with the National Science Teachers Assn. because they wouldn't accept the 50,000 copies to distribute to their members.

Their reason: They have a policy of not endorsing a particular project. In other words, thanks, but no thanks.

"I never in a million years thought this would happen," says David, a well-known environmentalist. "It made no sense to me."

So David wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post …