Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty
Drilled28 Elo 2018

Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty

Oil companies targeted scientists' biggest weakness—their refusal to be absolutely certain about anything—to sow doubt about climate change. In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, uncertainty became a tool for misinformation.

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