Show threadbs2Nov 7, 2023
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?...)
Show threadbs2Oct 26, 2023

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/

Thinktank linked to tech giant Canon under pressure to remove ‘dangerous’ climate articles

Exclusive: Some Canon Institute for Global Studies posts call the climate crisis ‘fake news’ and compare Greta Thunberg to a communist

The Guardian
Brian SmallOct 26, 2023
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
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bs2Oct 25, 2023
> 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
"Merchants of Doubt": How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

(Image: Bloomsbury Press) Ben Santer is the kind of guy you could never imagine anyone attacking. He’s thoroughly moderate—of moderate height and build, of moderate temperament…

Truthout
bs2Oct 25, 2023
> In 1982, Nierenberg was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to.. review.. acid rain... The #NierenbergPanel produced a report at war with itself.. a key internal contradiction...the executive summary agreed with the 1981 NAS study...[but a] misleading appendix was written by Fred Singer. In the early 1980s, Singer was a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation
https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
#WilliamNierenberg #FredSinger #MechantsOfDoubt #CorporateMuddiedWaters #RegulatoryCapture
From tobacco to climate change, ‘merchants of doubt’ undermined the science

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.”— Margaret Mead Because Americans are optimists we tend to see Mead’s observation as upbeat and life-affirming (as it was probably intended). Blinkered by optimism, however, we miss the dark flip side of her observation — that a few fanatics can do immense […]

Grist
Show threadbs2Oct 25, 2023
@AlaskaWx @RunRichRun
The recent talk of Global Cooling that got me to the CIGS (Canon Global Strategy...) Suit (Taishi Sugiyama) now has me reading grist and trughout articles for _Merchants of Doubt_. #FredSinger writing an appendix for the Acid Rain report sound just like Sugiyama writing a chapter for the IPCC. We must need basic #TheCorporation #RegulatoryCapture education or something.
https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
@MichaelEMann @andrewdessler @rahmstorf @ZLabe @andrewfreedman
From tobacco to climate change, ‘merchants of doubt’ undermined the science

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.”— Margaret Mead Because Americans are optimists we tend to see Mead’s observation as upbeat and life-affirming (as it was probably intended). Blinkered by optimism, however, we miss the dark flip side of her observation — that a few fanatics can do immense […]

Grist