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arenean

(456 posts) Fri Jul 7, 2017, 05:27 AM Jul 2017

Doubts about the science are being replaced by doubts about the motives of scientists and their political supporters. Once this kind of cynicism takes hold, is there any hope for the truth? By David Runciman

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/07/climate-change-denial-scepticism-cynicism-politics

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The Long Read: How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous [Guardian] (Original Post) arenean Jul 2017 OP

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1. A successful propaganda and disinformation campaign accomplishes exactly this. Focus on demonizing

Fri Jul 7, 2017, 09:35 AM

Jul 2017

and de-legitimizing the messenger (exactly what Trump has been doing to the MSM since the beginning of his campaign).