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me, Michael Tobis Ph.D., a.k.a. "mt"
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me, Michael Tobis Ph.D., a.k.a. "mt"
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- And What's Wrong with This Picture?
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2 comments:
:-)
*sigh*
The professional climate inactivist movement -- as exemplified by the Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Rush Limbaugh, John Theon, etc. etc. etc. -- is an "entertainment industry"? I think that's giving the inactivist movement too much credit.
Because it's primarily a noise industry.
Or, to put it more diplomatically, it's a weird sort of advertisement industry which uses a cocktail of techniques culled from mainstream advertisers, online Viagra peddlers, and Alex Jones.
-- bi
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