Many people have probably heard about the Great Barrington Declaration, denouncing social distancing and calling for "herd immunity." It's popular with the White House, and it's the product of a Koch-linked think tank 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/health/coronavirus-great-barrington.html …
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The idea is simple. Get some fringe scientists or experts to start a petition or sign a letter or “declaration” in order to give the appearance of legitimate scientific controversy and doubt about a scientific consensus.https://twitter.com/johnfocook/status/1314301046756384794 …
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With wordsmithing honed to provoke incautious readers’ minds to leap to false balance, false generalization, argument from authority, cherry-picking, and marketplace-of-ideas fallacies.
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Cancer/smoking denialism used it earlier.
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Very helpful posts. Keep up good work. It’s useful when I need to politely rebutt my Fox News-viewing-Atlas-pseudo-science friends with facts.
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It goes back further than that, to the tobacco industry, in the 1960s.
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From afar, it reminds me… In Germany about 2 years ago, 107 doctors signed a declaration against lower limits of respirable dust and NO× in the air. Widely supported by the far right party. Might be a good idea to compare if, they used the same playbook.
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AIER wasn't very connected with Koch network until 2017 arrival of 2 George Mason U PhDs, who coauthored ~14 papers a) Benjamin Powell (TX) joined as Voting Member, later in year became Trustee: https://www.texasobserver.org/koch-free-market-institute-texas-tech/ … b) New President Edward Stringham:https://jackmillercenter.org/jmc-fellow-ed-stringham-appointed-president-aier/ …
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