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Doubt Is Not Our Product
In my Atlas Shrugged series, I wrote about the tobacco companies who tried to conceal the health risks of smoking by sowing confusion and uncertainty. The strategy was to counter all the scientific evidence with ginned-up studies and paid-to-order experts so that people wouldn’t be sure what to believe. Their memos said that “doubt is our product” and that their goal should be “establishing a controversy” in the public mind. That story is an object lesson in how corporations that sell dangerous products are incentivized to encourage ignorance.
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Tobacco, global warming, evolution, sugar's effect on health, etc. This serves a double purpose: keeping sales high, and delegitimizing science (after all, they're all "theories", right?).
This is yet another point where corporations and politicians share a common goal: corps want to keep selling their crap at all costs, and politicians want people who are easy to manipulate. For both, ignorance truly is bliss.
Until they destroy the planet, of course.
And if they could make Mars livable,they would gradually destroy that as well.
We'll never go to Mars, not to stay. You know why? No oil!