Disclosed company falsehoods destroyed the incinerator project’s credibility

Evidence

Valck charges the planters with more than brutality. He accuses them of participation in a conspiracy of silence, deceit, and terror in which their reports “contain some truth but more often are filled with unashamed lies.” His accusations are not only aimed at subordinate European “no goods,” as he puts it. They are aimed higher and more dangerously at what he derisively calls the “gentlemen” (with their “blood-stained hands”) of the most established plantation companies. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1056 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The chemical industry and agribusiness went to great lengths to discredit Carson’s credibility as a scientist. They criticized her as biased for not citing the benefits of chemical pesticides in eradicating insect-borne diseases. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2613 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Crowdsourcing and leak tactics repeatedly misfired and produced false accusations — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 491; Planters’ reports entwined truth with deliberate falsehoods — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1056; Industries hid their rebuttals of harm evidence behind proxy organizations — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1769 (+2 more)

Related

• Chemical industry attacked Carson’s scientific credibility as biased (similarity 0.83)
• Planters’ reports entwined truth with deliberate falsehoods (similarity 0.81)
• Industry responded to Silent Spring by attacking Carson’s scientific credibility (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Planters’ reports entwined truth with deliberate falsehoods #corroborates (0.85) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1056
• Industry secretly sponsored silicosis research through a proxy institute to launder credibility #corroborates (0.85)
• Industries hid their rebuttals of harm evidence behind proxy organizations #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1769
• Chemical industry attacked Carson’s scientific credibility as biased #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2613
• Crowdsourcing and leak tactics repeatedly misfired and produced false accusations #corroborates (0.78) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 491