Corporations Cashing In With Confusion, Deceit and Doubt
“Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.
It is also the means of establishing a controversy.” (BBC)
Stanford University expert Robert Proctor singles out the key secret tactic Brown & Williamson tobacco company used to fight ‘anti-cigarette’ forces, which inspired him to develop the theory of agnotology- the ’deliberate propagation of ignorance’ by companies and people with vested interests seeking to ‘obfuscate knowledge’.
