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Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty

EPISODE · Aug 28, 2018 · 13 MIN

Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty

from Drilled · host Pushkin Industries

Oil companies targeted scientists' biggest weakness—their refusal to be absolutely certain about anything—to sow doubt about climate change. In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, uncertainty became a tool for misinformation. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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