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Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty
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Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty

Drilled

August 28, 201813m 42s

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Show Notes

Oil companies targeted scientists' biggest weakness—their refusal to be absolutely certain about anything—to sow doubt about climate change. In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, uncertainty became a tool for misinformation.

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