Estelle Platini

Said Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”

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How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda

“When you’re shining a light on something, almost everything else remains in the dark. And sometimes that darkness is deliberately kept dark.”

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"The crisis, therefore, was not (merely) the result of individuals making bad decisions. Yes, they did, but people make mistakes all the time; blaming the crisis on mistakes is like blaming a plane crash on gravity. Instead, it was the product of fundamental forces within capitalism."

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Against schoolteacher politics

There's a common mistake in looking at politics which is shared by the left and right - to regard bad policy as mere intellectual error. Here, for example, is Mike Denham of the TPA complaining that Jeremy Hunt "has not...

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