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Es sind die erklärten Feindʔinnʔeʔn des #ÖPNV, die immer wieder und systematisch Nebelkerzen in die Diskussion um die #Verkehrswende werfen: #eFuels, #Flugtaxi, #Hyperloop, #Magnetschwebebahn, #Transrapid.
Statt Dingen, die schon heute funktionieren: #Bahn, #Straßenbahn, ggf. Elektrifizierung des Bus- und Fährenverkehrs, Förderung von #Fahrrad- und #Fußverkehr.
Oder sie kommen mit Vorschlägen, die der Situation unangemessen sind: #Seilbahn oder #UBahn, nur damit der #Autoverkehr nicht gestört wird. Auch wenn die #Tram leistungsfähiger resp. preiswerter wäre.
Das ist kein Zufall oder Dummheit. Es ist eine #Taktik der Verwirrung und der Zweifel, ähnlich der #MerchantsOfDoubt.
PS: Das #Buch von #NaomiOreskes ist übrigens sehr gut. Da geht's um #Tabak und #Klima. #Buchtipp!
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Es sind die erklärten Feindʔinnʔeʔn des #ÖPNV, die immer wieder und systematisch Nebelkerzen in die Diskussion um die #Verkehrswende werfen: #eFuels, #Flugtaxi, #Hyperloop, #Magnetschwebebahn, #Transrapid.
Statt Dingen, die schon heute funktionieren: #Bahn, #Straßenbahn, ggf. Elektrifizierung des Bus- und Fährenverkehrs, Förderung von #Fahrrad- und #Fußverkehr.
Oder sie kommen mit Vorschlägen, die der Situation unangemessen sind: #Seilbahn oder #UBahn, nur damit der #Autoverkehr nicht gestört wird. Auch wenn die #Tram leistungsfähiger resp. preiswerter wäre.
Das ist kein Zufall oder Dummheit. Es ist eine #Taktik der Verwirrung und der Zweifel, ähnlich der #MerchantsOfDoubt.
PS: Das #Buch von #NaomiOreskes ist übrigens sehr gut. Da geht's um #Tabak und #Klima. #Buchtipp!
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Es sind die erklärten Feindʔinnʔeʔn des #ÖPNV, die immer wieder und systematisch Nebelkerzen in die Diskussion um die #Verkehrswende werfen: #eFuels, #Flugtaxi, #Hyperloop, #Magnetschwebebahn, #Transrapid.
Statt Dingen, die schon heute funktionieren: #Bahn, #Straßenbahn, ggf. Elektrifizierung des Bus- und Fährenverkehrs, Förderung von #Fahrrad- und #Fußverkehr.
Oder sie kommen mit Vorschlägen, die der Situation unangemessen sind: #Seilbahn oder #UBahn, nur damit der #Autoverkehr nicht gestört wird. Auch wenn die #Tram leistungsfähiger resp. preiswerter wäre.
Das ist kein Zufall oder Dummheit. Es ist eine #Taktik der Verwirrung und der Zweifel, ähnlich der #MerchantsOfDoubt.
PS: Das #Buch von #NaomiOreskes ist übrigens sehr gut. Da geht's um #Tabak und #Klima. #Buchtipp!
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Es sind die erklärten Feindʔinnʔeʔn des #ÖPNV, die immer wieder und systematisch Nebelkerzen in die Diskussion um die #Verkehrswende werfen: #eFuels, #Flugtaxi, #Hyperloop, #Magnetschwebebahn, #Transrapid.
Statt Dingen, die schon heute funktionieren: #Bahn, #Straßenbahn, ggf. Elektrifizierung des Bus- und Fährenverkehrs, Förderung von #Fahrrad- und #Fußverkehr.
Oder sie kommen mit Vorschlägen, die der Situation unangemessen sind: #Seilbahn oder #UBahn, nur damit der #Autoverkehr nicht gestört wird. Auch wenn die #Tram leistungsfähiger resp. preiswerter wäre.
Das ist kein Zufall oder Dummheit. Es ist eine #Taktik der Verwirrung und der Zweifel, ähnlich der #MerchantsOfDoubt.
PS: Das #Buch von #NaomiOreskes ist übrigens sehr gut. Da geht's um #Tabak und #Klima. #Buchtipp!
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Es sind die erklärten Feindʔinnʔeʔn des #ÖPNV, die immer wieder und systematisch Nebelkerzen in die Diskussion um die #Verkehrswende werfen: #eFuels, #Flugtaxi, #Hyperloop, #Magnetschwebebahn, #Transrapid.
Statt Dingen, die schon heute funktionieren: #Bahn, #Straßenbahn, ggf. Elektrifizierung des Bus- und Fährenverkehrs, Förderung von #Fahrrad- und #Fußverkehr.
Oder sie kommen mit Vorschlägen, die der Situation unangemessen sind: #Seilbahn oder #UBahn, nur damit der #Autoverkehr nicht gestört wird. Auch wenn die #Tram leistungsfähiger resp. preiswerter wäre.
Das ist kein Zufall oder Dummheit. Es ist eine #Taktik der Verwirrung und der Zweifel, ähnlich der #MerchantsOfDoubt.
PS: Das #Buch von #NaomiOreskes ist übrigens sehr gut. Da geht's um #Tabak und #Klima. #Buchtipp!
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Die epistemische Autorität der Wissenschaft: Wieso fordern Wissenschaftler Vertrauen, wo doch deren Norm der organisierte Skeptizismus ist? - Vortrag von Prof. Ulrich Dirnagl, #Charité Berlin. Am 29. Januar 2025 um 18 Uhr s.t., Alte Aula, Münzgasse 30 #Wissenschaft #Skeptizismus #DeepState #MerchantsofDoubt @ChariteBerlin Foto: ©️Katharina Holzhey
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Regarding my last boost, here's a direct link to the article, both Apple News and direct:
https://apple.news/AmA59zfVSRIWrgeB63NMgLA
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trans-medicine-ban-scotus-skrmetti/This is perfect framing of the pseudoscience being used against gender-affirming care: straight out of "Merchants of Doubt,” the same playbook the far right has used to attack the science around climate change, tobacco, and abortion. The pseudoscience that corporate media parrots.
Bookmark this article.
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Des institutions scientifiques entretiennent le doute sur les bénéfices du bio
Les marchands du doute sont de sortie, ne laissez-vous pas induire en erreur, et vive le Bio ! 😋
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@LeftistLawyer
> How many people need to die from a discrete natural catastrophe before […]Another factor is the strategy learned from the #tobacco industry and expanded into effective #ClimateDenial:
“Who can really say how many of those people died *because of* #GlobalHeating? This expert says many of them were already unwell, or chose to live in marginal environments. We need hard facts, not hyperbolic chicken-little alarmism”, etc. etc.
#MerchantsOfDoubt, the #FossilFuel industry included, don't need to *disprove*. They merely need to foster the impression the facts are not settled, which impression results in more delay.
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En als je wil weten waar dan toch al die fuzz vandaan komt: profesionele duur betaalde gordijnenrokers uit de industrie. Afgekeken van de tabaksindustie. Dood is prima handelswaar. Goed achtergrondartikel in @nrc #twijfelbrigade #merchantsofdoubt
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Twijfel als manier om Nederlandse stikstofbeleid te beïnvloeden? Waar kennen we dat van?
A) gezondheidseffect van roken
B) gezondheidseffect van passief meeroken
C) klimaatverandering
D) verzuring
E) gezondheidseffect van 'gewasbeschermingsmiddelen:
F) effecten van PFAS
G) effect van (H)CFK's op ozonlaag
H) alle hierboven genoemde dossiers
#MerchantsOfDoubt
#Twijfelbrigade -
> Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes testified that the public can have confidence in science because the scientific method of separating facts from fiction has stood the test of time.
> “Science works not because of individual genius. It works collaboratively to try to answer tough questions,” Oreskes said on the stand.https://www.desmog.com/2024/01/25/michael-mann-defamation-climate-science-mark-steyn-randsimberg-hockey-stick-graph/
#NaomiOrestes w/ #MichaelMann #ClimateChangeDenial #MerchantsOfDoubt #MerchantsOfSlander #HowScienceWorks
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> The Canon think tank spreads falsehoods about climate science, promotes fossil fuels and aims to slow the transition to clean energy.. Its reach includes...school children
> ...despite even Canon’s own scientists labelling its position “not defensible,” the Canon think tank has doubled down on climate denial and conspiracy theories..
https://speakslouder.org/reports/canon/
#Canon #CiGS #CanonThinkTank #SugiyamaTaishi #TaishiSugiyama
#TobaccoStrategy #MerchantsOfDoubt
#ThinkTankCessPool #CessPoolThinkTank -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
> In an interview with the #GlobalWarmingPolicyFoundation, Svensmark claimed we are experiencing global cooling and that temperatures have not increased “for the past 20 years”: (This statement is one of several common myths listed by SkepticalScience):
“... temperatures are not increasing. I mean, they haven’t been increasing for the past twenty years,” Svensmark said.
https://www.desmog.com/henrik-svensmark/
#Svensmark #HenrikSvensmark
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> 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...
https://truthout.org/articles/merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handful-of-scientists-obscured-the-truth-on-issues-from-tobacco-smoke-to-global-warming/
#TobaccoStrategy #NaomiOreskes #MerchantsOfDoubt #FredSinger -
.> Physics tells us that if the Sun were causing global warming—as some skeptics continue to insist—we’d expect both the troposphere and the stratosphere to warm, as heat comes into the atmosphere from outer space. But if the warming is caused by green house gases emitted at the surface and largely trapped in the lower atmosphere, then we expect the troposphere to warm, but the stratosphere to cool...
https://truthout.org/articles/merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handful-of-scientists-obscured-the-truth-on-issues-from-tobacco-smoke-to-global-warming/
.> Santer and his colleagues have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between these two atmospheric layers is in part defined by temperature, that boundary is now moving upward. In other words, the whole structure of our atmosphere is changing.
#BenSanter #NaomiOreskes #MerchantsOfDoubt #ClimateScience #Troposphere #Stratosphere #GlobalWamring #ClimateChange #IndustrialClimateChange more accurate than #AnthropogenicClimateChange? either term is closer to reality than blaming #ClimateChaos on #SolarClimateChange -
.> Physics tells us that if the Sun were causing global warming—as some skeptics continue to insist—we’d expect both the troposphere and the stratosphere to warm, as heat comes into the atmosphere from outer space. But if the warming is caused by green house gases emitted at the surface and largely trapped in the lower atmosphere, then we expect the troposphere to warm, but the stratosphere to cool...
https://truthout.org/articles/merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handful-of-scientists-obscured-the-truth-on-issues-from-tobacco-smoke-to-global-warming/
.> Santer and his colleagues have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between these two atmospheric layers is in part defined by temperature, that boundary is now moving upward. In other words, the whole structure of our atmosphere is changing.
#BenSanter #NaomiOreskes #MerchantsOfDoubt #ClimateScience #Troposphere #Stratosphere #GlobalWamring #ClimateChange #IndustrialClimateChange more accurate than #AnthropogenicClimateChange? either term is closer to reality than blaming #ClimateChaos on #SolarClimateChange -
@RunRichRun
I got this Guardian article thanks to following my tag #TaishiSugiyama #杉山大志. It's the same pattern explained in article about #MerchantsOfDoubt
> My recent read/post binge about this was urged by an environmental speech I saw over the weekend. I like the guy, he used to be good, still may be in some areas, but WTF happened with Polar Bears and Coral disproving ClimateScience?@MichaelEMann @andrewdessler @rahmstorf @ZLabe @AlaskaWx @andrewfreedman
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> 米国の #科学史 家ナオミ・オレスケスらによる「#世界を騙し続ける科学者たち」（原題：#MerchantsOfDoubt）にその実態が詳しく記されている。タバコ、オゾンホール、地球温暖化といった問題に共通して、規制を妨害する側の戦略は、科学への疑いを作り出し、人々に「科学がまだ論争状態にある」と思わせることだ（#ManufacturedControversy）そこでは、規制を嫌う企業が保守系シンクタンクに出資し、そこに繋がりを持った非主流派の科学者が#懐疑論・#否定論 を展開し、#保守系メディア がそれを社会に拡散している。
> 他にも社会科学者がこの問題について実態解明を進めており、2015年にNature Climate Changeに掲載された論文では、懐疑論・否定論の多くはエクソン・モービルとコーク・ファミリー財団という#化石燃料企業 やその関連組織が中心となって広められていることがネットワーク分析により明らかになっている。
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/0c5ebe740e18e09a8c301999957745d1dbf0567d
#江守正多 #ナオミオレスケス #NaomiOreskes #気象変化 #温暖化 #ザコポレション -
> .. historians Naomi Oreskes and Erick M. Conway document how a handful of right-wing ideologues — all scientists — have (mis)shaped U.S. policy for decades, delaying government action on life-and-death issues from cigarettes and second-hand smoke, to #AcidRain, and now, finally, to #ClimateChange.
https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
#MerchantsOfDoubt #ManufacturedControversy #NaomiOreskes #ErickMConway
#ScientistsForSale #Tobacco #Cigarettes #ClimateScienct #ClimateDoubt -
"To better understand the perspectives of those who see less urgency to address #ClimateChange, Pew Research Center conducted in-depth interviews with 32 U.S. adults who hold this view, including some who do not believe there’s evidence that the Earth is warming."
The interviewees who don't think climate is a big deal repeat all the talking points of the climate denial machine. It really shows that the "#MerchantsOfDoubt" have sold their product well. Unfortunately.
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"Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda
For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/
These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network
And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society
Excellent investigations of these groups include
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0
Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores
Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215
Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.
#DiscourseMagazine #KochBrothers #KochIndustries #CharlesKoch #Libertarians #Libertarianism #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety #Disinformation #MerchantsOfDoubt #TheBigMyth #NaomiOreskes #DarkMoney #JaneMeyer #EricMConway
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A textbook case of @naomioreskes and @erikconway's #MerchantsofDoubt thesis:
Revealed: The secret push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease
Internal documents from chemical giant Syngenta reveal tactics to sponsor sympathetic scientific papers and mislead regulators about unfavorable research
#pesticides #environment #capitalism #paraquat @TheGuardian_us
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"It is important to note that no government has said COVID-19 has gone away and that we can resume unmitigated social interactions facing the same risks we did in 2019. Instead, official messaging has centered around the idea of individual responsibility, that we should each engage in our own assessment of the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This feels a little like government smoking policy in the 1950s;"
https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/merchants-of-doubt/
#smoking #cancer #MerchantsOfDoubt #SarsCoV2 #COVID19 #WEF #JohnSnowProject #corona #propaganda
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Looks like Naomi #Oreskes and @erikconway will need to add a new chapter to #MerchantsofDoubt, about #gasstoves
In the Fight Over Gas Stoves, Meet the Industry’s Go-To Scientist
Here's a free link:
