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Informative video about the politics of manufacturing false doubt.

I like the way the film producers used the tobacco companies denial that tobacco would harm you to show a comparison between the deniers of global warming.

that is a great video.

the men who were spraying those kids in the swimming pool with DDT really made me think of todays republicans giving a speech.

and our adults of today who are listening to and agreeing to what the republican political candidates are saying are the kids in the pool.

"Myth of the Mini Ice Age" by YT user greenman3610
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQHqgdvXTxE

One of the most powerful tools used to create false doubt is spreading false facts or poor reasoning.

False facts can be
1) Manufactured out of whole cloth
2) Misrepresentations of actual research
3) True, but only partial presentation of actual research
4) True or False, but with false conclusions from poor reasoning that appear to be substantiated, but are not.

Many AGW denialists will acknowledge that "Yes, we ALL know that it's warming, but we don't know WHY!" Still, they'll happily pass on unsubstantiated "news" that backtracks on even that acknowledgement. That is, they'll still circulate articles that deny that any warming is occurring or as in this case, say that it's actually cooling.

Greenman explains how FOX "News" used technique #2 above in their report.