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Hiltzik: Scientists strive to be apolitical, but they can't keep politics out of their labs Since Galileo's time, politicians and ideologues have always tried to interfere with science. It's worse than ever today.

"Scientists strive to be apolitical, but they can’t keep politics out of their labs" | Great review of my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, in the @latimes.com (and @yahoonews.com), courtesy of Michael Hiltzik: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Alberta’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Strategy Doesn’t Apply to Polluters Regulators have clearly demonstrated they are prioritizing continued oil production over public safety.

Are oil sands companies above the law in Alberta?

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🟢 31 Reasons to read DeSmog in 2025
#19: Mitch Anderson, Reporter
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#14: Brendan DeMelle, Executive Director
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Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that ...

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I’ve made a cut-out-and-keep guide to Donald Trump’s political allies in the UK

… and their ties to big money 💵 and climate denial 🏭 🌎

It has an interactive map 👀 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/m... @desmog.bsky.social

For my fellow Americans living in the UK and trying to understand the flow of climate disinfo across the Atlantic - @adambarnett.bsky.social is your source!

🟢 31 Reasons to read DeSmog in 2025
#13: Adam Barnett, Reporter
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#12: Julie Dermansky, Multimedia Reporter
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#9: Ellen Ormesher, Investigative Reporter
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Missed DeSmog's session on "Culling Cows and Eating Insects?" at #ORFC25? 😬 Don't worry! You can listen to @hazelhealy.bsky.social talk 'misinfo in food and farming' and catch highlights from the Oxford Real Farming Conference on BBC's Farming Today: loom.ly/cUZQO4A 📻

Starting at 1pm GMT! ⏰ "Culling Cows and Eating Insects? Unpicking Food and Farming Misinformation" with DeSmog's @hazelhealy.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social ✊
There’s still time to join #ORFC25 online 👇 @ORFC
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🟢 31 Reasons to read DeSmog in 2025
#7: Clare Carlile, Reporter
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Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia Elon Musk is promoting a far-right agitator who has regularly aped Putin’s propaganda.

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Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia 👇🏻

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#5: Phoebe Cooke, Deputy Editor
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#3: Matthew Green, Global Investigations Editor
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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

www.propublica.org/article/oil-...

1. Acknowledge climate disinformation as a major threat damaging the information ecosystem, hindering climate action and policy, risking public safety and health and further widening societal and political divides.

Adopt the universal definition of climate disinformation as deceptive or misleading online behaviour that:

Undermines public understanding of the existence or impacts of climate change, the unequivocal human influence on climate change, and the need for corresponding urgent action to reduce global warming emissions (mitigation) and prepare for the current impacts and those we must expect (adaptation), according to the IPCC scientific consensus and in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement;

Misrepresents scientific data, including by omission or cherry-picking, to erode trust in climate science, climate-focused institutions, experts, and solutions; Falsely publicises efforts as supportive of climate goals that in fact contribute to climate warming or contravene the scientific consensus on mitigation or adaptation, including greenwashing.

Today, we're reintroducing our policy asks, starting with a call for governments to encourage social media platforms, ad tech companies, and media outlets to take these essential steps ⬇️

Big Banks Flee Climate Coalition Formed to Reduce Carbon Emissions JPMorgan Chase, the last major U.S. bank in the coalition, could also withdraw.

In case anyone believed U.S. banks were serious about fighting climate change: www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

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A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

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#1: Hazel Healy, Editor-in-Chief
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How to Start a Public University LNG Research Center: An LNG Lobbyist Director and Donations for Research Votes At McNeese State University’s LNG center, “we want to ensure that our LNG industry has a major say in research direction,” one of its project leaders wrote.

When this public university set out to launch an LNG research center, they felt others hadn’t done enough to bring in fossil fuel industry’s views. So they hired an LNG lobbyist to lead it. That was just the start. @sarasneath.bsky.social @nataliemclendon.bsky.social

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UK Regulator Bans ‘Misleading’ Lloyds Bank Climate Ad Bank has been bigging up reductions in “operational emissions” while continuing to finance the fossil fuel industry.

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The UK’s advertising regulator has banned an advert by Lloyds Bank about its “low carbon” policies for being misleading, in response to a formal complaint by @adfreecities.bsky.social

@tjjordan.bsky.social & @taylornoakes.bsky.social report: www.desmog.com/2024/12/18/u...