Read my @DisInfoChron interview w/ Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, who exposed the scientists who engaged in tobacco & #climatedenial

NAOMI ORESKES: DICHRON INTERVIEW disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/naomi-oreske…. /1
@DisInfoChron We discuss @JunkScience who I caught in the @industrydocs flacking for tobacco, while he was a science columnist at Fox News disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/naomi-oreske…
Milloy, you still taking tobacco money?! /2
@DisInfoChron @JunkScience @industrydocs Dr. Fred Seitz was President of Rockefeller University and was head National Academies of Science. He was also a tobacco consultant and climate denialist.
disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/naomi-oreske…
Here's tobacco consultants discussed how elderly he was in early 1989. /3
@DisInfoChron @JunkScience @industrydocs Despite deeming Dr. Seitz "quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice” tobacco consultants published his several hundred page evaluation of second hand smoke several months later. /3
@DisInfoChron @JunkScience @industrydocs After the movie "Merchants of Doubt" came out, one of the scientists who was exposed, then plotted on ways to attacks Oreskes. He alleged she was part of "feminist mafia" at UCSD.

Fred Singer was not a nice guy. /4

NAOMI ORESKES: DICHRON INTERVIEW disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/naomi-oreske…

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Cetiner complains it undermines his discussions w/ reporters.

Email here: documentcloud.org/documents/6382…
@sabanciu @GMWatch @corinnelepage 2/4 Selim Cetiner email goes to the AgBioChatter list for help in attack @corinnelepage who defended the Seralini study finding harm from #GMO corn.

See LePage piece posted at @GMWatch in English, here: gmwatch.org/en/latest-list…

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SURPRISE!!!

#Monsanto execs then get to work, apparently to hand off #GMO info to Cetiner so he can undermine LePage.

"This is urgent," Sachs writes.

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If you ever worried that science was being warped by corporate interests, this backpedal by AAAS in giving an award to pesticide researcher should lay that to rest.

Answer seems to be "yes."

@dannyhakim @EricLiptonNYT @lizabio @cgseife @sfoucart @JeanneLenzer1 @mara
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Guess what Monsanto did? Wild guess....
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