Comments on: Big Tobacco’s lessons for Big Food

By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:06:59 +0000

PS Margi – your comment about climate change deniers just reminded me of a presentation I attended a few years ago with retired professor Tim Ball doing a surprisingly convincing trashing of climate change. It wasn’t until several months later that I read an exposé in The Globe and Mail documenting how the oil industry-funded group called “Friends of Science” pays Professor Ball and others of his ilk to take his climate-change-denying show on the road. For example: “…we may not realize that by quietly backing the movement behind maverick figures such as Prof. Ball, the fuel industry is succeeding, bit by bit, in influencing both public opinion and government policy.”

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:48:55 +0000

Hi Margi – sadly, I’m beginning to think that “follow the money” is indeed the manipulator’s motto.

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By: Margi Macdonald

Margi Macdonald — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:37:15 +0000

Thanks for this Carolyn. It’s not so very different here in Australia.

I see the same shenanigans in the ‘behaviour’ of climate change deniers.

I do wonder if we’re also being subjected to the same manipulations by proponents of GMO foods?

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