{"id":10404,"date":"2013-12-01T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2015-03-06T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T05:39:17","slug":"haunting-parallels-in-denialist-tactics-of-big-tobacco-and-big-fossil-fuel-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10404","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Haunting Parallels&#8217; in Denialist Tactics of Big Tobacco and Big Fossil Fuel [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great thanks to Peter Sinclair and his <a href=\"http:\/\/climatecrocks.com\/2013\/11\/25\/new-video-links-between-big-tobacco-and-climate-denial-rhymes-with-smoky-joe\/\">&#8220;Climate Denial Crock of the Week&#8221; last week<\/a> for plotting this out in a quick video. The parallels between the denialist PR scams, lies, pretend science, spending and attacks by both &#8216;Big&#8217; industries here are, indeed, striking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to see both Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the man who <i>apologized<\/i> to BP after the 2010 Gulf Oil Disaster, and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the man who handed out checks from Big Tobacco on the floor of the U.S. House, both playing sleazily similar roles now for Big Fossil Fuel denialism as they did for Big Tobacco denialism back in the 90s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dj0PYdl99tI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n[By the way, for more on the same band of con-men playing the same roles now as then, see Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. M. Conway&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1608193942\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1608193942&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=tbb-20\"><em>Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming<\/em><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1608193942\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great thanks to Peter Sinclair and his &#8220;Climate Denial Crock of the Week&#8221; last week for plotting this out in a quick video. The parallels between the denialist PR scams, lies, pretend science, spending and attacks by both &#8216;Big&#8217; industries here are, indeed, striking. It&#8217;s also interesting to see both Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,608,455,498,540,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-joe-barton","category-john-boehner","category-natural-gas","category-oil","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}