BBC News Article on the effects of sowing "scientific doubt" about the ill effects of smoking on health and fossil fuels on global warming. How the world's biggest corporations have turned to instilling doubt among the public about negative outcomes in multiple fields. Their own research tells them one thing that is true and accurate, but their quest for profit leads them to either deny science in the given field or to instill doubt. This goes across fields -- tobacco, oil & gas, etc. Corollary: the quest for profits leads the mega-corporations to support right wing think tanks and to claim opponents are "socialists." (Note implications for 2024 Presidential race.)
David,
I chose to read Phoebe Keane's BBC article out of the rich basket of goods you offered. (I've tried to summarize it above. Do I have it right?)
You did. Corporations seem stuck in the "Greed-is-good" era, maximizing profits for management and shareholders at all costs while offering only cost-of-living wage bumps to workers, who, in the aggregate, have not had a real pay increase ever since Reagan introduced Supply-Side. Economics in 1981.
When I was a young U.S. Navy officer attached to the U.S. Marine Corps, I learned a valuable lesson in leadership: The company commander (usually a captain) is the last man through the chow line, making sure his men are taken care of properly. One wishes in vain that today's titans of industry follow this example.
Phoebe Keane
BBC News Article on the effects of sowing "scientific doubt" about the ill effects of smoking on health and fossil fuels on global warming. How the world's biggest corporations have turned to instilling doubt among the public about negative outcomes in multiple fields. Their own research tells them one thing that is true and accurate, but their quest for profit leads them to either deny science in the given field or to instill doubt. This goes across fields -- tobacco, oil & gas, etc. Corollary: the quest for profits leads the mega-corporations to support right wing think tanks and to claim opponents are "socialists." (Note implications for 2024 Presidential race.)
David,
I chose to read Phoebe Keane's BBC article out of the rich basket of goods you offered. (I've tried to summarize it above. Do I have it right?)
Keep up your good work!
Frank
You did. Corporations seem stuck in the "Greed-is-good" era, maximizing profits for management and shareholders at all costs while offering only cost-of-living wage bumps to workers, who, in the aggregate, have not had a real pay increase ever since Reagan introduced Supply-Side. Economics in 1981.
When I was a young U.S. Navy officer attached to the U.S. Marine Corps, I learned a valuable lesson in leadership: The company commander (usually a captain) is the last man through the chow line, making sure his men are taken care of properly. One wishes in vain that today's titans of industry follow this example.