#discredit — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #discredit, aggregated by home.social.
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A word of caution on my end. It relates to something I touch upon that in a recent #preprint on open data: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hk786_v1
There is a striking resemble to things recommended and backed by Big #Tabacco vs #Science some decades ago.
Ironically, they demanded what we in #OpenScience demand nowadays, but with a very different aim... :(Here a quick summary:
"Long before today’s #Open #Science movements, the Executive Committee of the Sound Science Coalition (1994; cited in Ong & Glantz, 2001) published guidelines that align with what Open Science practices advocate today. For example:
(1) The study design should inform about all hypotheses,
(2) after the study was conducted, the data should be analyzed as described in the study design, and
(3) if the data does not support the hypotheses, no further analyses are necessary.
Shockingly, in 1994 these recommendations were motivated by the fact that parts of the #tobacco industry aimed to #discredit research and researchers on a large scale, with the goal that it could not be legally established that smoking increases the risk of lung #cancer (Drope, 2001; Muggli et al., 2001; Ong & Glantz, 2001). Along this line, one may accuse researchers as having been naive to the vested interests aligning with scientific rigour by non-researchers." -
@UlrikeHahn
We as researchers are just super naive. If you ask me, those things go back to Big #Tabacco vs #Science
Ironically, they demanded what we in #OpenScience demand nowadays, but with a very different aim... :(I touch upon that in a recent #preprint on open data: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hk786_v1
"Long before today’s #Open #Science movements, the Executive Committee of the Sound Science Coalition (1994; cited in Ong & Glantz, 2001) published guidelines that align with what Open Science practices advocate today. For example:
(1) The study design should inform about all hypotheses,
(2) after the study was conducted, the data should be analyzed as described in the study design, and
(3) if the data does not support the hypotheses, no further analyses are necessary.
Shockingly, in #1994 these recommendations were motivated by the fact that parts of the #tobacco industry aimed to #discredit research and researchers on a large scale, with the goal that it could not be legally established that smoking increases the risk of lung #cancer (Drope, 2001; Muggli et al., 2001; Ong & Glantz, 2001). Along this line, one may accuse researchers as having been naive to the vested interests aligning with scientific rigour by non-researchers." -
Ein älterer, aber relevanter Artikel zeigt, wie diese Kommunikationsmuster schon lange zur Strategie gehören – auch gegenüber Veteranen.
Lesenswert zur Einordnung:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1057181
#Trump #Discredit #NarrativeControl #Veterans #USPolitics #Spin -
Das Verhalten der #Trump Administration in der #Signal Affäre wirkt wie eine #Fallstudie zur Trump-Krisenkommunikation: deny, divert, discredit. Erst wird abgestritten, dann abgelenkt, schließlich diskreditiert. In der schnelldrehenden Kommunikation dieser Administration laufen die Taktiken oft gleichzeitig. Die aktuellen Angriffe auf #TheAtlantic sind Teil einer klaren #Discredit #strategie.
#USA #Politik #Medienstrategie #Krisenkommunikation #Propaganda #Kommunikation #desinformation
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🔥The US government-funded a ‘private social network’ which posts personal attacks on pesticide critics 🔥
In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly #regulate #dangerous #pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and other health problems.
Publicly, the pesticide industry’s lead trade association dubbed the recommendations “unfounded and sensational assertions”.
👉 In private, industry advocates have gone further.👈⚠️Derogatory profiles of the two UN experts, Hilal Elver and Baskut Tuncak, are hosted on an online private portal for pesticide company employees and a range of influential allies.
Members can access a wide range of #personal #information about hundreds of individuals from around the world deemed a threat to industry interests,
including the US food writers Michael #Pollan and Mark #Bittman, the Indian environmentalist Vandana #Shiva and the Nigerian activist Nnimmo #Bassey.🆘 Many profiles include #personal #details such as the names of family members, phone numbers, home addresses and even house values.
The profiling is part of an effort – that was
💥financed, in part, by #US #taxpayer #dollars
– to #downplay pesticide dangers, #discredit opponents and #undermine international policymaking, according to court records, emails and other documents obtained by the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Reports
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
#House #EthicsPanel says it found ‘#substantial #evidence’ of #lawbreaking by #NewYork #Republican #Representative #GeorgeSantos.
The #committee said that Santos’ #conduct #warrants #public #condemnation, is beneath the #dignity of the #office, and has brought #severe #discredit upon the #House. Plans #referral to the #JusticeDepartment.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Crime #RepublicanParty
https://apnews.com/article/ethics-congress-santos-5ebffe514d8779fbc16a77fa1ab5e0df
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We can’t fight the Republican party’s ‘big lie’ with facts alone
🔺Why do seemingly serious people repeat crazy political lies? 🔺
This was the question the American anthropologist and political scientist Lisa Wedeen explored when she studied the Syrian dictatorship in the 1990s.
She was struck by how people who were usually rational in private would repeat the utterly absurd slogans of the regime, such as claiming that the dictator Hafez al-Assad was the greatest chemist in the world.
“From the moment you leave your house, you ask: what does the regime want?,” a Syrian explained to her. “The struggle becomes who can praise the government more.” The bigger the lie you uttered, the more loyal you were.
🔥“The regime’s power resides in its ability to impose national fictions and to make people say and do what they otherwise would not,” Wedeen concluded. “🔥
👉This obedience makes people complicit; it entangles them in self-enforcing relations of domination, thereby making it hard for participants to see themselves simply as victims of the state’s caprices.”
👉💔I was reminded of Wedeen’s research when the US Congress finally selected a #speaker after weeks of chaos.
Their choice, Congressman #Mike #Johnson of Louisiana, is best known for ardently supporting ex-president Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Jo Biden, was rigged.
Johnson was the head of the committee to question the integrity of the election. He constructed spurious legal arguments that tried to #discredit the vote, though his proposals were thrown out by the US supreme court. He raised the unfounded theory that the voting machines used in the election were #tampered with.
This claim is so groundless that Fox, the network that supported the allegation, had to pay nearly a billion dollars in a settlement with Dominion, the company that makes the machines.
Many of the Republican representatives who supported Johnson’s candidacy have admitted both publicly and privately that the elections were, in fact, not falsified.
Yet when journalists faced a gaggle of Republican congressmen and questioned Johnson’s record on this blatant lie, his colleagues jeered and he mockingly said: “Next question” – as if the facts were irrelevant here.
🔸Along with Wedeen’s Syrian example, I’m reminded of the Czech dissident and playwright Václav Havel’s essay The Power of the Powerless, where he tells the story of a greengrocer in communist-era Prague who puts up pro-regime posters in his shop window.
The greengrocer doesn’t believe the communist slogans; the people who make the slogans don’t believe in them; and the people who read them don’t believe in them.
👉But as long as everyone plays along, the system continues. It’s the act of not believing and yet pretending, rather than of fervently believing, which is the power of such systems.
♦️Your will is corroded: you are made into moral mincemeat that can be shaped any which way by the leader.♦️ -
Republicans Try To Discredit Judge In Trump’s Jan. 6 Case. Except They All Voted For Her.
#Republicans #Judge #Trump #Jan6Case #Discredit #VotedForHer #Politics #News
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NEW EXCLUSIVE from me:
#distort, #discredit, #dismiss - 6 communication tactics of media #manipulators and how they work to #sabotage discourse around #scientific topics.
Anti-#science activism never went away, it got a new ugly face in the #information age:
Quacks, gurus, contrarian doctors, fake experts, influencers, political commentators and similar media manipulators. #antivaxxers & #conspiracy theories
We need media #literacy to defend against them.
Read:
https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/distort-discredit-dismiss -
#Victorian #Liberals expel controversial #MP #MoiraDeeming for 'bringing #discredit' to #party
#Victorian MP and #TERF #MoiraDeeming has been #expelled from the #parliamentary #party by her colleagues after she #threatened #legalaction against #leader #JohnPesutto.
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CW: Word fun and fuzzing
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Is your community important? Would anyone (state or corporate) have a lot to gain from its demise?
Does it look like it is falling into chaos, with misaligned incentives, and arguing?
Then read this: https://jmichaelhudson.net/identifying-police-state-infiltration-in-civilian-organizations/
#subversion #infiltration #provocateur #dissent #discredit #community #police #state #undercover #fbi #nsa #agent #security #intelligence #corporate #reputation #crazy