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Ficha técnica
Fundador:
Herman Kahn
Estratega militar durante la Guerra Fría (analista de estrategias de guerra nuclear ganables)
Procede de RAND Corporation
Science of «futurology»
Año de fundación:
1961
Presidente:
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Negacionistas de referencia:
Dennis T. Avery
Michael Fumento
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Adopta identidades falsas en comentarios de blogs
Sede actual:
Washington D.C.
Misión declarada:
An independent research organization promoting new ideas for the advancement of global security, prosperity and freedom.
Orientación económica:
Promueve la privatización de la Seguridad Social
Agencias de PR:
Brown & Williamson
Hill & Knowlton
Posicionamiento negacionista climático:
No es el CO2. El cambio climático tiene una periodicidad de 1500 años y es imparable.
Otros negacionismos:
Campaña contra la agricultura orgánica (financiada por Monsanto)
DDT
Lluvia ácida
Actividades:
Origen de la financiación documentada:
Department of Commerce
Carthage Foundation
Castle Rock Foundation
David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
Earhart Foundation
F.M. Kirby Foundation
Fieldstead Institute
J.M. Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation
Scaife Family Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
William H. Donner Foundation
Cargill
Ciba-Geigy
DuPont
Eli Lilly and Company
Exxon Mobil
Heinz
IBM
McDonalds
Merck
Microsoft
Monsanto
Novartis
PhRMA
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Procter & Gamble
Referencias
Pro-GM scientists and the Right – Norfolk Genetic Information Network – http://ngin.tripod.com/rightwing.htm
“It appears that a strategy proven effective in the US is being carefully replicated here: the use of right wing journalists and academics to smear GM critics and alternatives to agricultural biotechnology. In the US figures like Dennis Avery and Michael Fumento have helped fulfil this role. In the UK significant use is now being made of a similar clique of extreme anti-environmentalists who draw heavily on the ideas and tactics of Avery, in particular. A key contributor to each of the BBC programmes raising questions about organic food has been Julian Morris, the Director of the Environment and Technology Programme of the far right think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs … «Both Bate, the ESEF and the IEA have had a dry run for their work on tobacco. Roger Bate came to fame as the author of an IEA book dismissing the widespread scientific consensus on global warming «Global warming or hot air?».”
Michael E. Mann (2012) – The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines – Columbia University Press – Penn State Earth System Science Center – ISBN-13: 978-0231152549 – 384 Págs.
“Not all ‘amateurs’ are what they appear to be. A primary goal of the disinformation machine is to manufacture an illusion of grassroots support … Stephen McIntyre, for example, was found leveling online attacks hiding behind the sock-puppet’Nigel Persaud.’ while Michael Fumento of the Hudson Institute, perhaps best known for his attacks on environmental activist turned cinematic heroine Erin Brockovich, was once discovered posting self-suporting comments as ‘Tracy Spencer’ [ref].”
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (2010) – Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Bloomsbury New York – Professor of History Science Studies Program University of California; National Aeronautics and Space Administration – ISBN: 978-1596916104 – 365 Págs.
«Seitz’s strident anti-Communism was shared at influential foreing policy think tanks. They included the Hoover Institution (originally founded as the Hoover War Library, dedicated to promoting the ‘ideas that define a free society’), the Hudson Institute (founded by the military strategist Herman Kahn during the mid 1970s), and the Heritage Foundation (established in 1973 to promote conservative ideas). [ref] These organizations and their allies in Congress fostered an assault on détente.» (p. 37) … «Fortune ran an article by a researcher at the Hudson Institute, a progrowth think tank founded by Cold Warrior Herman Kahn. ‘Maybe acid rain isn’t the villain’ asserted that it could eventually cost Americans about $100 billion… The rain has been studied only for about six years (you’d think t hink tank researchers could do arithmetic: teh elapsed time between 1963 and 1984 did not come to six years.).» (p. 94)
Hudson Institute – Wikipedia – Visitado el 03/04/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute
«After it was revealed that Michael Fumento received funding from Monsanto for his 1999 book Bio-Evolution, company spokesman Chris Horner confirmed that it continues to fund the think tank. «It’s our practice, that if we’re dealing with an organization like this, that any funds we’re giving should be unrestricted,» Horner told BusinessWeek. Hudson’s CEO and President Kenneth R. Weinstein told BusinessWeek that he was uncertain if the payment should have been disclosed. «That’s a good question, period,» he said.»
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