The WSJ versus the NAS

[Pat Mustard]

There was an extraordinary episode of Cosmos with NdGT in which he detailed the guy who finally beat the lead industry.  The same shit we are used to seeing.  They hired their own "scientist" to claim that breathing lead was good for you and trotted him out whenever someone was coughing too much!

Similar to the tactics used by the tobacco industry.  Same as the NFL and concussions/CTE.  Same as the energy companies claiming "what pollution?"

They'd gladly kill us all if it meant making another dollar.

Ditto for Big Tobacco who, for decades, denied the association between smoking and cancer, lung cancer, in particular.  There's always some "expert" whom can be paid enough money to say anything.  Just look at ID, or the Discovery Institute.

Big T actually had it easy, because most of the best early work on the problems of smoking and its links to lung cancer were done by Nazis, and the research was either buried for its deep unethicality, (e.g. vivisections on KZ prisoners) or because they were ideologically no longer "sound" (it was after the war after all).