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us/How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
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Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand. In the early years of DeSmog’s research...
If Facts Don’t Matter, What Does?
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This is an excerpt from DeSmog founder Jim Hoggan’s latest book, I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse, published by New Society Publishers. I first began reading the ...
Why I Wrote a Book About How to Clean Up Toxic Debates
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I wrote my last book, Climate Cover-Up, because I wanted to take a deeper look at the science propaganda and media echo chambers that muddied the waters around climate change, fuelled denial of fac...
How Propaganda (Actually) Works
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Political Propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.   In the early years of DeSmog’s resea...
us/Recommended Reading: The Agony of Frank Luntz in The Atlantic
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This is a worthwhile read about a morally confused guy who would, if he continues to do what he does so well, make the problem he is distressed about worse. He seems unable to see his own hand in a...
us/Ethical Oil Doublespeak Is Polluting Canada's Public Square
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“Like any other tool, language can be abused, used not to build but to destroy, not to communicate but to confuse, not to clarify but to obscure, not to lead but to mislead.” 
- William Lutz⁠ Re...
us/Communicating for Change: Anthony Leiserowitz on Climate Change Psychology
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When it comes to climate change, Yale's Anthony Leiserowitz says, “you almost couldn't design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology”; an insight that is all too apparent.  In...
us/Cleaning Up Canada’s Polluted Public Square
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The most urgent environmental threat to Canadians isn’t climate change, the declining health of our oceans, or the extinction of species. It’s the pollution filling our nation’s public square. The ...
us/The Web We Weave When We Practice to Deceive
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“We are not muzzling scientists.” - Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister. I shook my head reading Margaret Munro’s Weekend Vancouver Sun article on freedom of information documents that caught...
us/SPINalysis: Heartland’s Echo Chamber Shifts the Target
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President Joe Bast Dodges Responsibility – for Now It’s been a month since the Heartland Institute was caught in a St. Valentine’s Day Striptease – inadvertently exposing its entire budget and fun...
us/Unaccountable Oil: Is Enbridge Already Polluting the Canadian (Political) Environment?
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If the pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. is content to cower behind a 20-something blog manager rather than acknowledge its role in the recent attack on the patriotism of Canadian environmentalists, wha...
us/Denial Of Facts Is No Way To Understand Science
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On Thursday December 1st, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente declared herself a defender of scientific integrity by calling upon the scientific community to replace the “rhetoric” of climate c...
us/40th Anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo Launching Corporate Propaganda Infrastructure
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo, a document that set the stage for the creation of the echo chamber that protects corporate interests ahead of the public interest.  A corp...
us/Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki on How Individual Frame of Mind Has Everything To Do With Saving the Planet
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Getting people to believe that they really can make a difference in the struggle to the save the planet from human folly can be just as important as encouraging them to take action, according to on...
us/DeSmogBlog's Brendan DeMelle on Ed Schultz Show and Ring of Fire Radio Discussing Denial-a-Palooza
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DeSmogBlog executive director Brendan DeMelle appeared on the Ed Schultz radio show earlier this week to discuss the Heartland Institute’s sixth International Conference on Climate Change - a.k.a. ...
us/Canadian Leadership Has Failed To Honor Its Commitment To Curb Climate Pollution, It’s Time For Action
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An Environment Canada report recently published in Geophysical Research Letters confirms that Canada’s lack of action on climate change is likely going to mean an inevitable 2 degrees Celsius of wa...
us/Paul Krugman's Must-Read NY Times Op-Ed On Immoral Climate Denial
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New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman has a must-read piece today noting the “cynical careerism” of climate deniers who won’t even acknowledge the truth when one of “their own” discovers that...
us/Exciting Updates and New Additions to DeSmogBlog
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DeSmogBlog was launched five years ago to clear the PR pollution that clouds climate science by exposing the influence of polluter interests working to mislead the public about global climate chang...
us/Andy Revkin Reviews Bjorn Lomborg's New Film 'Cool It'
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Andy Revkin has posted an initial review on his Dot Earth blog about Bjorn Lomborg’s new film ‘Cool It.’Head over to Dot Earth to read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt of important points an...
us/Koch-funded Prop 23 Campaign Manufacturing Science
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In the latest example of polluter attempts to exert influence over science, the Koch-funded Pacific Research Institute was paid to manufacture another junk science “study” designed to lend credibil...

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