Brandt AM. Inventing conflicts of interest: a history of tobacco industry tactics. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):63-71. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300292. Epub 2011 Nov 28. PMID: 22095331; PMCID: PMC3490543. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific […]
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Are people really so naive that they don’t know about astroturfing? Seriously?
I see people who have no idea why someone rich right-winger might fund something leftist. Did nobody ever hear of a strawman? People have seriously never heard the concept of being co-opted?
Do not expect Josh Shapiro to be a leader or a fighter.
This is a letter I received TODAY, February 11, 2025 Please don’t expect Josh Shapiro to emerge as a leader for us. That’s a hopeless cause and should be dismissed outright. He is complicit. He’s not a solution, he’s part of the problem. How many Republican governors have said this about Barack Obama or Joe […]
