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  1. Maybe telling a psychopath (er.. corporation) that they must go about their business under new rules can have some effect... At any rate, It's nice to have an English description of what the Japanese writings are doing. Basic Media Literacy or Civics classes should show the #FredSinger #AcidRain application of the #MerchantOfDoubt #TobaccoStrategy I guess. Would be great to remove this strategy from the corporate, bureaucratic toolbox (or arsenal?...)

  2. Regulatory Capture and obfuscation might be key concepts, or threshold ideas to wade through #DoubtCampaings of #AntiRegulation PR flacks.

    > He[Taishi Sugiyama] is currently a lead author of a chapter of a major IPCC report, due next month, on ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions around the world.
    theguardian.com/environment/20
    #SugiyamaTaishi sabotaging an important environmental report like #FredSinger did in the 1980s.
    grist.org/article/from-tobacco

  3. > Once they had been prominent researchers, but.. on every issue, they were on the wrong side of the scientific consensus. Smoking does kill—both directly and indirectly. Pollution does cause acid rain. Volcanoes are not the cause of the ozone hole. Our seas are rising and our glaciers are melting because of the mounting effects of green house gases in the atmosphere, produced by burning fossil fuels...
    truthout.org/articles/merchant
    #TobaccoStrategy #NaomiOreskes #MerchantsOfDoubt #FredSinger