Big Tobacco spent decades fueling science denial, funneling money to sellout scientists who deliberately cast doubt on both sound science and the very *idea* that we could know *anything*. As @TimHarford describes in #TheDataDetective, #DarrellHuff's 1954 classic #HowToLieWithStatistics was part of a tobacco-industry-funded project to undermine faith in statistics itself (the planned sequel was called *How To Lie With Cancer Statistics*):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#harford

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