Tobacco firms ridiculed science showing tobacco harms to discredit it

Evidence

The tobacco industry disparaged research that demonstrated the harmful effects of tobacco. Robert Proctor (2011) compiled a two-page list of the massive ridicule. Here is but a small sample: “half truths in the hands of fanatics … Orwellian Official Science … Scientific malpractice … statistical jiggery pokery … claptrap … colossal blunder.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1685

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Industry can distort science simply by funding the researchers who suit it — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 400; Tobacco executives publicly claimed no proof existed while privately knowing otherwise — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 323; The tobacco industry invented science denial as public-relations strategy — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 63 (+1 more)