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2009-09-29 | permalink
Industry and greens battle over pseudoscience in EU capital
An industry-bankrolled PR company has attacked what it calls pseudoscience in EU legislation, as a years-long war between the defenders of enlightenment and the partisans of obscurantism comes to Brussels. Grayling, the world’s third largest public relations company, on Monday launched ’ScienceMatters,’ a campaign to promote ”science-based policy-making.” The group wants to take on bad science and what it describes as scaremongering about technology.
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2009-09-29 | permalink
Industry and greens battle over pseudoscience in EU capital
An industry-bankrolled PR company has attacked what it calls pseudoscience in EU legislation, as a years-long war between the defenders of enlightenment and the partisans of obscurantism comes to Brussels. Grayling, the world’s third largest public relations company, on Monday launched ’ScienceMatters,’ a campaign to promote ”science-based policy-making.” The group wants to take on bad science and what it describes as scaremongering about technology.
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