#merchantsofdoubt — Public Fediverse posts
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Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is ‘nonsenscial’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/trump-administration-pfas-drinking-water-regulation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other#PFAS #FalseSolutions #WaterPollution - All from the #ChemicalIndustry using proven methods from the #FossilFuelIndustry #MerchantsOfDoubt
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Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is ‘nonsenscial’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/trump-administration-pfas-drinking-water-regulation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other#PFAS #FalseSolutions #WaterPollution - All from the #ChemicalIndustry using proven methods from the #FossilFuelIndustry #MerchantsOfDoubt
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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
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Finished reading 'Merchants of Doubt' by Naomi Oreskes and @erikconway
A gripping historical account of industries funding propaganda to create a perception of doubt, sometimes for decades, around scientifically established facts.
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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 -
.> 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 -
"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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"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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"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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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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"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:
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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:
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@sushubh Are #ElonMusk (aka #SpaceKaren ) and other #MerchantsOfDoubt attacking #Wikipedia because people learn there that the founders of #Telsa are #MartinEberhard and #MarcTarpenning?
Do the combined trajectories of the #TwitterExodus and #TeslaStock form a #Hyperloop ? 😂
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@sushubh Are #ElonMusk (aka #SpaceKaren ) and other #MerchantsOfDoubt attacking #Wikipedia because people learn there that the founders of #Telsa are #MartinEberhard and #MarcTarpenning?
Do the combined trajectories of the #TwitterExodus and #TeslaStock form a #Hyperloop ? 😂
