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Weaponizing False Equivalence
Season 1
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and propped up "contrarian" scientists to push the narrative…
Published on 7 years ago
The Turn
Season 1
As the price of oil dipped in the early 1980s, management changed at most oil companies and the industry as a whole became more concerned with preserving its core business than expanding in new direc…
Published on 7 years ago
The Bell Labs of Energy
Season 1
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon wanted to be the Bell Labs of energy. It hired brilliant scientists who conducted cutting-edge research on everything from the "greenhouse effect" to renewable ene…
Published on 7 years ago
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty
Season 1
In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, oil companies exploited various weaknesses in science, namely scientists' tendency toward not prioritizing or valuing go…
Published on 7 years ago
Drilled: A True Crime Podcast about Climate Change
Season 1
Launching November 14th, Drilled is a limited series investigative true-crime podcast about the crime of the century: the creation of climate denial.
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Published on 7 years, 3 months ago