james hoggan

My review of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is up at the Firedoglake book salon. It begins: Question: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman? You'll have to click through to find out the answer.
John Mashey's Amazon review of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan. Anti-Science and Who Does It Anti-science (or agnotology), seeks to cover-up or obscure science considered inconvenient, or at least create doubt in the minds of public and decision-makers. It seeks to replace knowledge with ignorance, and has no resemblance to normal arguments within science, by scientists. Modern anti-science is most skilfully executed by a relatively small subset of lobbyists and PR agencies. Some of the most effective are actually "think tanks". They have public identities…