Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
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Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
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#2Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doubt/skepticism as possible to make the public nihilistic/cynical. Meanwhile, most of these products don't even need to be used. We're just letting a few companies pollute the earth and get rich for a minor gain of convenience to the public.
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#3Not bad. It's merely a small snippet but it's indicative in tone and implicit in intent.
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#4Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doub…
Credit must also go to mass purely for max profit agribusiness who just don't care and are too big to fight so responsibility to stuart falls to the enlightened citizens knowing government is toothless
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#5Why do people work for companies like this? Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?
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#6Why do people work for companies like this? Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?
I ask the same thing about Facebook and Google employees, and people who work for "defense" contractors.
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#7Why do people work for companies like this? Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?
Same reason why some of our software engineering colleagues reading your comment right now work on Facebook.
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#8Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doub…
What strategy do you think they should use instead to correct people spreading misinformation about their company and products. Being a popular brand to hate is not a good pr image.
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#9I think a more effective strategy might be shaming individuals who make up the company. Just start buying internet ads with a persons name and how they wrote reports to try and convince people something that caused cancer didn’t cause cancer.
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#10Why do people work for companies like this? Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?
I ask the same thing about Facebook and Google employees, and people who work for "defense" contractors.
At least defense contractors can argue they’re helping the “good guys”, people at Facebook know they’re part of the problem but they can’t turn down the money.