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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 14:12:29 +0100
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@@ -81,22 +81,22 @@ even scientific researchers as the tobacco industry in their efforts to use
science to defend their profits [@hulac-jul-2016]. They have also used the same
strategies, including manufacturing scientific controversy, 'information
laundering' through think-tanks, and providing financial support to scientists
-who promote views in line with their interests [@smoke-mirrors-hot-air]. Fossil
-fuel companies have used balancing norms in journalism to demand an equal public
+who promote views in line with their interests [@smoke-mirrors-hot-air]. Companies
+have used balancing norms in journalism to demand an equal public
hearing for climate sceptics over their opponents, creating a public impression
that the experts are divided on the reality of human-caused climate change or
the urgency of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions [@leah-2011, pp.
-204-208]. Fossil fuel companies have obscured their involvement in their own
+204-208]. They have obscured their involvement in their own
strategies by funneling their money through legal vehicles called 'donor
foundations,' which give their money to think-tanks on their behalf while
protecting their anonymity [@brulle-2014]. When climate sceptics don't leave a
-paper trail tracing their money back to the fossil fuel companies who benefit
+paper trail tracing their money back to those who benefit financially
from the promotion of their views, they are much harder to refute, particularly
in cultures like the UK and US which place a high value on the freedom of speech.
Therefore, as long as the fossil fuel industry has significant power, the
majority epistemology of our society cannot help but be partially shaped by
-fossil fuel interests. To escape fossil-think requires minority cognition.
+their interests. To escape fossil-think requires minority cognition.
This has precedents even within the green movement. In the view of Linda Lear,
the effect of _Silent Spring_, Rachel Carson's damning exposé on the chemical