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WHY TRUTH HIJACKERS ARE PERSUASIVE. "First, they skillfully invoke values that are shared by the scientific community and the American public alike, like free speech, skeptical inquiry; (2) highly specialized scientific experts can’t spare the time to engage in careful public communication; (3) any dissent by any scientist is then seen as evidence that there’s no consensus." http://lnkd.in/dazmtq2 View in LinkedIn

BOOKS ON NEWSPEAK. "David Michaels’s Doubt Is Their Product (2008), Ross Gelbspan’s The Heat Is On (1997), James Hoggan’s Climate Cover-Up (2009), Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science (2009), David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz’s Deceit and Denial (2002), Robert Procter, Cancer Wars (1995)." http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/manufactured-ignorance View in LinkedIn

SILENCED SPRING. "We find an excellent account of revisionist attacks on Rachel Carson (now blamed for deaths from the banning of DDT), and a good explanation of the links between recent authors of antienvironmentalist screeds and right-wing think tanks." http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/manufactured-ignorance View in LinkedIn

CONTROVERSY SELLS PAPERS. "In one study of U.S. media, Max and Jules Boykoff found that more than half of all stories on global warming from 1988 through 2002 gave equal time to denialists, with another 35 percent giving space to them while recognizing the consensus view." http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/manufactured-ignorance View in LinkedIn

MANUFACTURING BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. "Conflicts of interest" - which have been the subject of intense debates over the last two decades. Regardless of the ongoing debate and attempts by numerous editors to reign in conflicts of interest, the current state of affairs is still far from satisfactory, as Chalmers, the past director of the Cochrane Centre, recently noted." http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102009005000076&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en View in LinkedIn

GOOD SCIENTISTS ARE LOOSING THE PR WAR. "Scientists are lousy communicators. They appeal to people's heads, not their hearts or guts. Scientists think of themselves as guardians of truth. Once they have spewed it out, they feel the burden is on the audience to understand it and agree." We need to join the real world. http://www.newsweek.com/why-scientists-are-losing-public-relations-war-69571 View in LinkedIn

EXTREMIST SCIENTISTS. "An elaborate network of extremist scientists, all with links to well-endowed “think tanks” such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute." Backed by none other than the Electric Power Research Institute, the Global Climate Coalition and the Tobacco Institute. http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/manufactured-ignorance View in LinkedIn

CIGARETTE STRATEGY. "Oreskes and Conway show that climate change was really a surrogate for larger fears of a regulatory state—a state seen as increasingly willing to curtail free-market liberties in the name of environmental protection. Environmentalism (and in particular climate science) was conjured up as the latest in a long line of threats to liberty." http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/manufactured-ignorance View in LinkedIn

MANUFACTURED IGNORANCE: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's book, Merchants of Doubt. "In 1984 Seitz, Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg founded the George C. Marshall Institute, which basically did for climate change what the Tobacco Institute had long been doing for cigarettes." http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/manufactured-ignorance View in LinkedIn

"FALSE BALANCE ... is a real or perceived media bias, where journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence actually supports. Journalists may present evidence ... out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may censor information which would establish one side's claims as baseless." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance View in LinkedIn