Conspiracist climate denial rejects expertise itself, unlike corporate misinformation

Evidence

While the corporate misinformation campaign accepts the idea of expertise in principle—and even produces its own pseudoexperts to rival scientific experts—the new conspiracist climate-change denial represents a more complete rejection of expertise. The goal of climate-change hoaxers is not to persuade legislators and regulators; it is not programmatic. For those who claim climate change is a hoax, climate science is just one target in the sweeping attack on the authority of specialized knowledge. Expertise as such is disdained. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 249

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply distinguishes two kinds of denial: corporate misinformation that still trades in expert counterclaims versus conspiracist denial that attacks epistemic authority wholesale.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-government ideology independently motivated climate-change denial beyond industry funding — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 74; Climate-change denial organizations were directly funded by tobacco and fossil-fuel interests — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 71; Fossil fuel funding manufactured doubt that made climate change a partisan media issue — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 160 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Corporate misinformation can be refuted; hoax conspiracism cannot #expands (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 243
• Corporations manufacture doubt as a deliberate product to block climate action #contradicts (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 108
• Conspiracism undermines rather than expresses democratic skepticism about experts #corroborates (0.80) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 269
• Conspiracists falsely portray themselves as skeptical critical thinkers #corroborates (0.80) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 265