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?...)
bs2Oct 31, 2023
> 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
Canon cutting its climate targets, a new study shows, while its think tank busy at spreading denial and conspiracy theories

Canon Institute of Global Studies research directors are attacking climate science and undermining Japan’s transition to clean energy. #CanonExposed

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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…

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