Negating adverse research is a standard industry defense in media violence debates.
Evidence
The plot continues with the negation of adverse effects. A television executive is asked by reporters whether he is aware of research showing that exposure to televised violence can have adverse effects. The executive replies that he is also aware of research disputing that claim. This encounter with the press includes a cut to a scene in which callous reporters press for comments from an anguished wife standing beside the body of her husband, who was crushed to death in a car accident. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 900
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The ‘research disputing the claim’ move echoes the manufactured-doubt tactic used by tobacco and fossil fuel industries.
Related
- Denial of harm and victim caricature pervade industry defenses (similarity 0.88)
- Industry critics falsely claimed media-violence studies lacked control groups (similarity 0.80)
- TV defenders invoked even tobacco deaths to minimize their programs’ violence (similarity 0.80)
- The broadcast industry organized coordinated attacks on violence researchers (similarity 0.80)
- Industry critics deploy contradictory arguments that media effects are both unknowable and beneficial (similarity 0.80)