(Totally OT) Re: DMD 0.175 release

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 02:02:42 PST 2006


Don Clugston wrote:
<snip>
> There's a lot of junk science around, no doubt about it, in all kinds of 
> directions. An interesting one is that a lot of air pollution publicity 
> was funded by cigarette companies (so that people would blame their 
> chronic bronchitis and lung cancer on environmental factors, instead of 
> the toxic chemicals they were pumping directly into their lungs twenty 
> times per day...).

The same happened to research that denied human influence on global 
warming - it was (partly) sponsored by oil companies. The effect of this 
on public opinion was that it destroyed the image of consensus, making 
it into a controversial subject. Even though only handful of (sponsored) 
scientist deny the phenonemon as opposed to several thousands that more 
or less agree, it still *looks* like there is something to dispute, 
hence not worry about it.




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