james hoggan
tlambert | December 6, 2009My review of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is up at the Firedoglake book salon. It begins:
Question: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman?
You'll have to click through to find out the answer.
tlambert | September 22, 2009John Mashey's Amazon review of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan.
Anti-Science and Who Does It
Anti-science (or agnotology), seeks to cover-up or obscure science considered inconvenient, or at least create doubt in the minds of public and decision-makers. It seeks to replace knowledge with ignorance, and has no resemblance to normal arguments within science, by scientists.
Modern anti-science is most skilfully executed by a relatively small subset of lobbyists and PR agencies. Some of the most effective are actually "think tanks". They have public identities…