Blinded By Science
By Center for Environmental Health,
Center for Environmental Health [Mentions CGS's Jessica Cussins]
| 09. 30. 2013
In this episode, three stories of science gone wrong: distorted science, unethical science, and just plain nutty science. We learn about geoengineering and take a geoengineering quiz—can you guess which is NOT a real proposal to cool the planet? Then we hear how companies that make flame retardant chemicals distorted a major scientific study—for decades. And science and human rights collide in the Grand Canyon.
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Jim Thomas and the ETC Group closely follow developments in geoengineering on their Hands Off Mother Earth campaign homepage. In this episode, Jim describes what happened when maverick geoengineer (and long-time con man) Russ George brought his ocean fertilization scheme to the Native people who live on Haida Gwaii, an island community off of the British Columbia coast. New Energy Times also has background on Russ George’s history of pseudo-science scams, and the Vancouver Sun has been following developments in Haida Gwaii.
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