Does this list of tricks used to stall the regulation of tobacco look familiar to you?
- Launch a public relations campaign disputing the evidence.
- Predict dire economic consequences, and ignore the cost benefits.
- Use non-peer reviewed scientific publications or industry-funded scientists who don’t publish original peer-reviewed scientific work to support your point of view.
- Trumpet discredited scientific studies and myths supporting your point of view as scientific fact.
- Point to the substantial scientific uncertainty, and the certainty of economic loss if immediate action is taken.
- Use data from a local area to support your views, and ignore the global evidence.
- Disparage scientists, saying they are playing up uncertain predictions of doom in order to get research funding.
- Disparage environmentalists, claiming they are hyping environmental problems in order to further their ideological goals.
- Complain that it is unfair to require regulatory action in the U.S., as it would put the nation at an economic disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.
- Claim that more research is needed before action should be taken.
- Argue that it is less expensive to live with the effects.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1389
It is the ’standard list with the added ‘taxes are going to hurt everyone unfairly’ and ‘its all just a conspiracy to get more taxes’ thrown in used by any large scale powerful lobby to win the day.
What were the arguments the bankers used to save them from the fate they deserved?
What were [are] the continuing arguments the auto industry is using to receive continuing subsidies… if they can’t run a successful business close it, leave it to their competitors.
Guess what the arguments will be if anyone were foolish enough to suggest that too much money was wasted on the war machinery [ie 'defense' forces and their ever increasingly expensive toys]
Sorry, I don’t agree with Tobacoo regulation.
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Just another PR/propaganda campaign by corporate interests.
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Did you say tobacco regulation or carbon regulation?
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same exact tactics
you should add "get Fred Singer involved" and "Taxes are wicked" to this list.
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Just avoid tobacco- it’ll kill you.
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Ha! I love it. Thank you.
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I dont mean to be flippant but should’nt the people who smoke the stuff be more aware of the facts above. If fools dont care about their bodies then what can you do. The tobacco trade like the drug trade rely on junkies and there are millions of them. I have come to conclusion that the powers that be want things to stay the same. Years ago simple illness would take lives and with the leap in drug and medicine knowlage many more people are living to an age where population is a massive problem. I am a sceptic. I believe the reason for wars are for population control as well as disputes. Tobacco can be taxed….drugs cant.
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A good example of the connection is the author of the very aptly named "junkscience" column: "In 2000 and 2001, for example, Milloy received a total of $180,000 in payments from Philip Morris for consulting services."
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/kwk84a00
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It is the ’standard list with the added ‘taxes are going to hurt everyone unfairly’ and ‘its all just a conspiracy to get more taxes’ thrown in used by any large scale powerful lobby to win the day.
What were the arguments the bankers used to save them from the fate they deserved?
What were [are] the continuing arguments the auto industry is using to receive continuing subsidies… if they can’t run a successful business close it, leave it to their competitors.
Guess what the arguments will be if anyone were foolish enough to suggest that too much money was wasted on the war machinery [ie 'defense' forces and their ever increasingly expensive toys]
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Very similar to the creationist playbook too, with economic arguments instead of moral ones.
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Eerie, isn’t it…
It’s especially familiar since they’re using the same PR firms and the same industry-funded scientists.
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Yes tobacco used the same arguments,and like Paul notes a lot of the same people,Fred Singer,James Cotton,Fred Coony and Canadians recall Tim Ball and the Friends of Science.
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