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| Topic Started: Nov 19 2015, 03:23 AM (138 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Nov 19 2015, 03:23 AM Post #1 |
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Big City Boy
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IT's a Blu-Ray disc/documentary but posting in Entertainment would be wrong. The subject is corporate manufacturing of doubt to slow down practical curtailment of public dangers. THe film starts with cigarette danger denial and then into the need for copious amounts of useless but potentially dangerous FIRE RETARDANTS in all our furniture (to stop cigarette fires instead of banning smoking.) This methodology is then expanded into Climate Change denial by spokesmen and "think tanks." The same methodology is used to slow down change, often by half a century and amazingly enough, some of the same people denying the evidence cigarettes cause cancer, are even the same PEOPLE denying that man is heating up the planet to a dangerous point. Fascinating and important. Many of us know THAT they are doing it, but the film shows a lot of the mechanics of HOW and by WHOM and that the techniques of sowing doubt are identical from case to case. If you want to kknow where "the data is not yet in" or "scientists are split on the topic" or "needs more research" come from, this is the film for you. Watch it if you stumble upon it. (Netflix has it but only by disc mailer...worth putting at the top of your Queue.) Edited by Trotsky, Nov 19 2015, 05:10 AM.
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