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Merchants of Doubt: Meet the sleazy spin doctors who will stop at nothing to obscure the truth
2015-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: In 1994, the CEOs of America`s seven largest tobacco companies sat before Congress and testified, in contradiction to the overwhelming scientific evidence, that cigarettes aren`t addictive and that evidence linking them to cancer is inconclusive. The footage is shocking enough by today`s standards (and by the standards of the time), and is all the more so when juxtaposed with an industry memo from 30 years earlier that states the exact opposite: "We are ... in the business of selling nicotine, an...
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