Big Oil, Not Big Tobacco, Wrote the Public Skepticism Playbook: Report | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't tobacco companies who invented
this nefarious and deadly strategy... like so many lives their deceit
claimed, they stole it.
"From
the 1950s onward, the oil and tobacco firms were using not only the
same PR firms and the same research institutes, but many of the same
researchers." (Photo: Thomas Hawk/flickr/cc)
the 1950s onward, the oil and tobacco firms were using not only the
same PR firms and the same research institutes, but many of the same
researchers." (Photo: Thomas Hawk/flickr/cc)
