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The tobacco companies were notorious for confusing the public about the threat cigarettes posed to human health. But there are many ways you can recognize disinformation and stop its spread.

The crisis of confidence in science has deep origins. The answer to regaining traction is compelling stories and the skills to tell them beyond the academy, writes Bartłomiej Knosala

Given the fossil fuel industry’s track record, there is good reason to mistrust the motives behind the oilsands consortium’s sudden commitment to joining the fight against climate change.

Before studies showed that cigarettes caused cancer, tobacco companies recruited the medical community for their ads.

Copy Analysis + update Big techs approach to avoiding AI regulation looks a lot like Big Tobaccos campaign to shape smoking rules, according to academics who say machine-learning ethics standards need to be developed outside of the influence of corporate sponsors. In a paper included in the Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’21) next month, Mohamed Abdalla, a doctoral student in computer science at the University of Toronto, and Moustafa Abdalla, a d...

The Atlantic What Conspiracy Theorists Don’t Believe Distinguishing excessive doubt from excessive belief can help inform how to bring a conspiracy theorist back to reality. March 16, 2021 Paul Spella / The Atlantic Some people believe the most extraordinary things. Earth is flat, and airplane GPS is rigged to fool pilots into thinking otherwise. COVID-19 vaccines are a pretext to inject thought-controlling microchips into us all. The true president of the United States is Donald Trump; his i...

“THE twentieth century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance,” Alex Carey noted in his seminal 1995 book Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, “the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” The Australian writer’s analysis is well illustrated by the engrossing 10-part BBC Radio 4 series How They Made Us Doubt Everything. Presented by Peter Pomer...

Australia is known as the darkest market for big tobacco. Our laws and regulations are some of the strictest in the world. But no matter our laws and policies, big tobacco is always one step ahead. Its current tactic is to rebrand itself as a friend of public health, marketing nicotine-laden “harm reduction” smokeless devices like vapes, e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products as safer alternatives to smoking. Tobacco company Philip Morris paid News Corp tens of thousands of dollars to ru...

After jamie rod myer, the teen who committed suicide did just that. its a frank statement. he said in light of jamies death it became clear in know instant that living a gay life without acknowledgement is not enough to make a contconstitution to the road to complete equity. a lot of people in and outside of hollywood praising him for coming forward. people do try to respect privacy as much as possible. when it can do good, its good see celebrities come out and say something revealing to help so...