#tobaccostrategy — Public Fediverse posts

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?...)

> 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

> 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