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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
Lex Fridman Podcast
Tobacco Industry's Doubt-Mongering Strategy
- The tobacco industry manufactured doubt alongside cigarettes, recognizing that continued sales depended on maintaining public ignorance about the health risks.
- This strategy became a template for other denial campaigns, like climate change denial.
- The industry funded extensive research, not to discover truth, but to distract from the known link between cigarettes and cancer.
- They successfully framed the causal link between smoking and cancer as a political opinion rather than a scientific fact, similar to arguments about gun violence.
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