In the #ThirdBook I go into extensive detail re extent to which arguments about causation are core strategy of the historical script known as the #ManufactureOfDoubt. Nothing the industry expert is saying here is remotely surprising. This is the playbook

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/climate/gas-stove-health.html

In the Fight Over Gas Stoves, Meet the Industry’s Go-To Scientist

Longstanding research shows the health dangers of gas-burning ranges. Utilities are turning to Julie Goodman, a toxicologist with a firm whose work raises questions about the science.

re the LRT, a private corp that has gutted its own infrastructure &, after predictable failures, accused workers of feigning illness, has me thinking about @[email protected]'s excellent book as well as our SI on "Malingering & Health Policy" #ManufactureOfDoubt

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/issue/25CF661E6DFD44EB8A09289C81F70BAC

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: Volume 49 - Malingering & Health Policy | Cambridge Core

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Jeff Herrod feels forgotten: ‘No one acknowledges the work we did’

The heartbeat of the Colts' defense for a mostly dreadful decade of football, Herrod wants today's players to know his story.

The Athletic

"As Top Scientists Say Concussions Can Cause C.T.E., These Sports Doctors Dig In"

I mean, this #ManufactureOfDoubt is literally #TheThirdBook. So you’ll have to forgive me for not saying more about it in a tweet. #PHLaw #PHEthx https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/sports/football/cte-brain-trauma-concussions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

Do Concussions Cause CTE? Sports Doctors and Scientists Disagree.

As another major medical institution acknowledged the link between concussions and the brain disease C.T.E., a group of scientists who guide many of sports’ top governing organizations dismissed the research at its conference.

The kinds of relationships at issue here are historically part of the #ManufactureOfDoubt and have to be contextualized that way and in light of the larger evidence base on how r-ships motivate us to be biased.

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