Doubt is Their Product
by Tom Clancy · first published 2008
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Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health Not really the audience here (it has a very anti-libertarian message), but I found this book to be eye-opening. Basically it's about how companies…
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why” ↗…Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney, move on to Unscientific America by the same author, The Great Derangement by Matt Tiabbi, or Idiot America by Charles Pierce. Skim through Merchants of Doubt or Doubt is their Product to see some of the links to various corporate think tanks. The evidence is clear, maybe you should check some of it out.
on “Most Scientists in the U.S. Are Democrats. That's a Problem” ↗…then it's likely that a common and successful kind of propaganda has done its job. You don't necessarily have to be persuaded, you just have to doubt the normal conclusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubt_Is_Their_Product https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/
on “Chevron wins case to jail lawyer Steven Donziger” ↗…their right. You'll have to make up your own mind as to if that's happening today and on other days, as specific accusations are frowned upon in the site terms (2) 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubt_Is_Their_Product https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/ 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html