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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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The fascists would prefer you distrust the best method ever devised for improving our model of reality, the scientific method, and they would prefer you distrust the massive overwhelming results it has produced.
The fascists want you to distrust our democratic government, so they break windows to have a false excuse for dismantling democracy and the guard rails we chose to establish from experience.
#Science #FightMisinformation #NaomiOreskes #FightBackDamnIt
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The fascists would prefer you distrust the best method ever devised for improving our model of reality, the scientific method, and they would prefer you distrust the massive overwhelming results it has produced.
The fascists want you to distrust our democratic government, so they break windows to have a false excuse for dismantling democracy and the guard rails we chose to establish from experience.
#Science #FightMisinformation #NaomiOreskes #FightBackDamnIt
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The fascists would prefer you distrust the best method ever devised for improving our model of reality, the scientific method, and they would prefer you distrust the massive overwhelming results it has produced.
The fascists want you to distrust our democratic government, so they break windows to have a false excuse for dismantling democracy and the guard rails we chose to establish from experience.
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The fascists would prefer you distrust the best method ever devised for improving our model of reality, the scientific method, and they would prefer you distrust the massive overwhelming results it has produced.
The fascists want you to distrust our democratic government, so they break windows to have a false excuse for dismantling democracy and the guard rails we chose to establish from experience.
#Science #FightMisinformation #NaomiOreskes #FightBackDamnIt
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The fascists would prefer you distrust the best method ever devised for improving our model of reality, the scientific method, and they would prefer you distrust the massive overwhelming results it has produced.
The fascists want you to distrust our democratic government, so they break windows to have a false excuse for dismantling democracy and the guard rails we chose to establish from experience.
#Science #FightMisinformation #NaomiOreskes #FightBackDamnIt
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#NaomiOreskes: “Los fracasos del libre mercado han aupado a Trump entre los que se han visto perjudicados por ellos”
La historiadora ha publicado ‘El gran mito’, donde desgrana cómo los poderes empresariales estadounidenses nos enseñaron a amar el fundamentalismo de mercado
Que el #neoliberalismo, la mano invisible y las bondades del libre mercado tienen más de #dogma de fe que de ciencia económica, es una afirmación que ya no sorprende a mucha gente
Por
@EconoCabreado
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/economia/naomi-oreskes-fracasos-libre-mercado-aupado-trump-visto-perjudicados?s=09# -
Why Trust Science? (The University Center for Human Values Series Book 55) by Naomi Oreskes (PDF)
Author: Naomi Oreskes
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/why-trust-science-the-university-center-for-human-values-series-book-55-b08kymmlmp/
#Science, #NaomiOreskes -
al seminari amb #naomioreskes al #cccb ha dit que qui desconfia de la ciència no és només ignorant. el problema és que les seves idees i fe cega en el mercat pesen + que l'evidència. no rebutgen la ciència per manca d'info, sinó perquè no els hi agraden les conseqüències polítiques d’acceptar-la.
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al seminari amb #naomioreskes al #cccb ha dit que qui desconfia de la ciència no és només ignorant. el problema és que les seves idees i fe cega en el mercat pesen + que l'evidència. no rebutgen la ciència per manca d'info, sinó perquè no els hi agraden les conseqüències polítiques d’acceptar-la.
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al seminari amb #naomioreskes al #cccb ha dit que qui desconfia de la ciència no és només ignorant. el problema és que les seves idees i fe cega en el mercat pesen + que l'evidència. no rebutgen la ciència per manca d'info, sinó perquè no els hi agraden les conseqüències polítiques d’acceptar-la.
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al seminari amb #naomioreskes al #cccb ha dit que no podem pensar que qui desconfia de la ciència és, simplement, ignorant. el problema no és que no entenguin les dades, sinó que les seves idees i la fe cega en el mercat pesen més que l’evidència. no rebutgen la ciència per manca d’informació, sinó perquè no els hi agraden les conseqüències polítiques d’acceptar-la.
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Erik M. Conway et Naomi Oreskes : L'effondrement de la civilisation occidentale : un texte venu du #futur
-> essai de prospective de lutte contre les obscurantismes intéressés afin d'éviter à l'humanité «l'Age de la pénombre».
#NaomiOreskes #ErikConway #science #MichelDesmurget #livre #mastolivre #citation #books #bookstodon #amreadingessai
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"In 1970, Muskie warned his fellow senators that if air pollution went unchecked, it would “threaten irreversible atmospheric and climatic changes.” "
#NaomiOreskes on the need to read minutes of the last meeting...
https://grist.org/science/lost-history-climate-1960s-clean-air-act-supreme-court/ -
#book2read: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by #NaomiOreskes and #ErikMConway via #ReneeDiResta in #InvisibleRulers
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003RRXXO8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConCW #SocialMedia #polarization #politics #ClimateChange #Science #Environment #Tobacco
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#book2read: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by #NaomiOreskes and #ErikMConway via #ReneeDiResta in #InvisibleRulers
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003RRXXO8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConCW #SocialMedia #polarization #politics #ClimateChange #Science #Environment #Tobacco
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#book2read: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by #NaomiOreskes and #ErikMConway via #ReneeDiResta in #InvisibleRulers
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003RRXXO8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConCW #SocialMedia #polarization #politics #ClimateChange #Science #Environment #Tobacco
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Marchés tout-puissants: anatomie d’un mythe états-unien
Reprenant la méthode qu’ils avaient appliquée au climatoscepticisme, les deux historiens des sciences #NaomiOreskes et #ErikConway décrivent la guerre culturelle qu’ont menée les défenseurs du tout-marché outre-Atlantique. Un ouvrage utile qui présente un certain nombre d’écueils.
Par @RGodin › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/120324/marches-tout-puissants-anatomie-d-un-mythe-etats-unien
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#NaomiOreskes, historienne des sciences : « Nous mettons en œuvre aux Etats-Unis des idées politiques qui ne fonctionnent pas. Nous payons le prix fort du libre marché » #lemonde
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/03/03/naomi-oreskes-nous-devons-etre-attentifs-a-la-maniere-dont-la-vie-intellectuelle-peut-etre-faconnee-par-les-interets-des-entreprises_6219816_3232.html -
> 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 -
> Physics tells us that if the Sun were causing#GlobalWarming—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/
#BenSanter #NaomiOreskes #SolarClimateChange #IndustrialClimateChange -
> 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 -
It’s Time for Science to Take Down Bullies in Its Own Ranks. By #NaomiOreskes | Published May 1st, 2022
Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop
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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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"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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"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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Study Shows Exxon Accurately Predicted Warming Decades Ago
"This is the nail in the coffin of ExxonMobil's claims that it has been falsely accused of climate malfeasance," said Geoffrey Supran, lead author of a new study on decades of the fossil fuel giant's global warming projections.
#ExxonKnew, #exxonmobil, #FossilFuels, #geoffreysupran,
#harvarduniversity, #naomioreskes,
#potsdaminstituteforclimateimpactresearch, #stefanrahmstorfhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/exxon-global-warming-projections
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Study Shows Exxon Accurately Predicted Warming Decades Ago
"This is the nail in the coffin of ExxonMobil's claims that it has been falsely accused of climate malfeasance," said Geoffrey Supran, lead author of a new study on decades of the fossil fuel giant's global warming projections.
#ExxonKnew, #exxonmobil, #FossilFuels, #geoffreysupran,
#harvarduniversity, #naomioreskes,
#potsdaminstituteforclimateimpactresearch, #stefanrahmstorfhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/exxon-global-warming-projections
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Study Shows Exxon Accurately Predicted Warming Decades Ago
"This is the nail in the coffin of ExxonMobil's claims that it has been falsely accused of climate malfeasance," said Geoffrey Supran, lead author of a new study on decades of the fossil fuel giant's global warming projections.
#ExxonKnew, #exxonmobil, #FossilFuels, #geoffreysupran,
#harvarduniversity, #naomioreskes,
#potsdaminstituteforclimateimpactresearch, #stefanrahmstorfhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/exxon-global-warming-projections
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“Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections”
Spoiler alert: they had it right.Naomi Oreskes (e.g. “Why Trust Science”, “Merchants of Doubt”) is a co-author:
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I've finally gotten 'round to reading "Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society", a SciAm article that had surfaced on HN yesterday.
Only just now realised who the authors are: #NaomiOreskes and #EricMConway. The two have collaborated on several earlier works (notably Merchants of Doubt, on intentional disinformation regarding climate change, especially that from oil and coal companies).
Oreskes also wrote (though I've only skimmed bits) on the history of the development of plate tectonics theory from a fringe suggestion considered crackpot to the central organising principle of geology, over 50 years.
Put mildly, I'm a fan.
The article is ... a bit muddled, moreso perhaps because the authors are seeking their theme in a larger space, but it hits on numerous cencepts I've been mulling for a few years makes me damned curious as to what they're up to. I'm pretty sure it's something significant.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlimited-information-is-transforming-society/
The HN discussion doesn't do the piece justice, though that's probably due to both length and complexity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24392661
But yeah, I recommend giving this a close read if you're interested in #HistoryOfScience or #HistoryOfTechnology.