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.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#SugiyamaTaishi sabotaging an important environmental report like #FredSinger did in the 1980s.
https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/

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