Thread by @1jasliz

Strategies used by Big Tobacco, successors & various controversies: 1) the coal industry & black lung disease, 2) the sugar industry & both cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, 3) the agrochemical business & chemical pollution, and 4) the fossil fuel industry & climate change. /1

https://twitter.com/thomaskaine5/status/1467528732659359745

They found that all of the industries would use *disinformation* tactics like: 1) gaining support from reputable individuals, 2) misrepresenting data, 3) attacking study designs, 4) using hyperbolic & absolutist language and (of course) 5) trying to influence lawmaking. 2/

Other popular disinfo tactics include 1) manufacturing misleading literature, 2) suppressing incriminating information, 3) host bad faith conferences & seminars, 4) pretend to be defenders of health, 5) abusing credentials and 6) taking advantage of scientific illiteracy. /3

Senators Schatz, Whitehouse & Warren Call Out Climate Denial Materials Sent To Science Teachers Across USA—wrote letter to Trump Dept Ed Sec Betsy DeVos yesterday to highlight *disinfo-science materials sent by *climate-denial group, Heartland Institute, to 300+K Science teachers

#DisinfoPeddlerHeartlandInstitute Heartland’s 11-minute DVD and 135-page book, made to look like typical curriculum materials for science teachers, explicitly designed to call into question the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-caused climate change.

#DisinfoPeddlerHeartlandInstitute Among other false claims, they push America’s 300+K Science teachers to “consider the possibility” that climate science is not settled and “students would be better served by letting them know a vibrant debate is taking place among scientists.”