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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: astroturf
Thanks to the Tobacco documents we've learned how tobacco companies have secretly funded astroturf organizations like junkscience.com, secretly paid for think tanks to run political campaigns for them, and even created their own astroturf scientific journal. The latest pile of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:03 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: astroturf
Jim Giles, who broke the story of how for-profit publishers had hired Eric Dezenhall to run a PR campaign against Open Access, has a post at the New Scientist Science News blog, where he posts a copy of Dezenhall's proposal....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: astroturf
No really! That's the argument. But I'm getting ahead of myself. In January I wrote how for-profit publishers had hired an infamous PR firm to run a campaign against open access publishing. They've now produced an organization called PRISM (Partnership...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: astroturf
In 1995, several think tanks mounted vitrolic attacks on the FDA using expensive radio, television and print ads. In an article in the Los Angeles Times Myron Levin wrote: Although the attacks do not mention tobacco, the industry is a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:06 AM • 37 Comments •
Category: astroturf
revere reports The for-profit publishers don't like BMC or Public Library of Science (PLoS) or any of the other open access publishers and are determined to crush them. So they hired the PR firm of Eric Dezenhall, who also worked...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:28 AM • 83 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Jim Hoggan has the details on a brand new Canadian astroturf group, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project. The chairman is none another than Tim Ball, who is still puffing up his resume. The executive director is Tom Harris, whose other...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: astroturf
Via Sarah Pullman, a handy guide to the history and practice of Canadian Astroturf....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:39 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: astroturf
Last year I wrote: The Australian Environmental Foundation is a brand new environmental organization. Unfortunately they have chosen a very similar name to the long established Australian Conservation Foundation, so similar that the ACF has sued for trademark infringement. Probably...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:19 AM • •
Category: astroturf
Barista has more on the history of Spiked. It seems that they have set up another astroturf operation called "Sense about Science", chaired by Dick Taverne....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:17 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astroturf
The Australian Environmental Foundation is a brand new environmental organization. Unfortunately they have chosen a very similar name to the long established Australian Conservation Foundation, so similar that the ACF has sued for trademark infringement. Probably the best way to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 PM • 8 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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