278/ ∆ 24 Sowing doubt

"SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Generating Electricity…and Uncertainty

As the tobacco and electrical industries demonstrate, US corporations have a history of sowing doubt for profit.

By: Matthew Wills  February 9, 2024  3 minutes.

Science itself is the best weapon of the enemies of science. The uncertainty that is necessary and intrinsic to scientific inquiry, writes historian of science Naomi Oreskes, “creates the vulnerabilities that interested parties may exploit.”"

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