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To: Brumar89 who wrote (886332)	9/9/2015 12:39:34 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577901

"he didn't put a date on his prediction" He said 3000 years. I helped you out by doing the addition for you. " that's how politically driven science works and it's the truth." There is no politically driven science. There is only politically driven non-science. It begins, as all tales do, with a bowl of pipeweed. Tobacco and cancer A cigarette carton warns about the health risks of smoking. Public awareness was delayed by a SCAM (Scientific Certainty Argumentation Method). [4] By the mid-1950s there was a scientific consensus that smoking promotes lung cancer, but the tobacco industry fought the findings, both in the public eye and within the scientific community. Tobacco companies funded think tanks and lobbying groups, started health reassurance campaigns, ran advertisements in medical journals, and researched alternate explanations for lung cancer, such as pollution, asbestos and even pet birds. Denying the case against tobacco was "closed," they called for more research as a tactic to delay regulation. [10] John Horgan, notes a rhetoric tactic that has been used by tobacco companies. It is summarized in a line that appeared in a confidential memo from a tobacco company, in 1969, when they sought to cast doubt on evidence that supports smoking causes cancer. It read, "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." [5] [11] en.m.wikipedia.org