• Bruce Bartlett's conspiracy theories

    From mINE109@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 14 09:43:16 2023
    Have at!

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2548255

    Abstract

    ...Together with other recent analyses of sugar industry documents, our findings suggest the industry sponsored a research program in the 1960s
    and 1970s that successfully cast doubt about the hazards of sucrose
    while promoting fat as the dietary culprit in CHD [coronary heart
    disease]. Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to
    food industry–funded studies and include mechanistic and animal studies
    as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development.

    https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/13/2002761534/-1/-1/0/PEARL_HARBOR_REVISITED.PDF

    This story also records what today must be ranked as an intensely
    important interlude when the Navy radio/traffic intelligence program deliberately avoided the underlying intelligence of intercepted traffic
    while exploiting foreign cryptographic systems. Today most intelligence
    experts would call such a practice naive or ill advised. Yet a policy
    requiring OP-20-G cryptanalysts to search primarily for unique
    cryptographic features of codes and ciphers which might later be refined
    and employed by Navy cryptographers was not changed until 1942. Coupled
    with a reluctance to hire civilian trainees, this policy seriously
    delayed the training of enough Navy cryptanalysts and linguists to deal
    with a workload which increased exponentially both in complexity and
    volume after 1939. Ultimately, the resulting shortage of cryptanalysts
    and Japanese linguists, the problem of misplaced priorities, and
    interservice rivalry issues all contributed to misplacing the major
    focus of the Navy’s cryptanalytic and linguistic efforts on Japanese diplomatic messages. The unfortunate result of these circumstances was
    to postpone with fatal consequences an all-out effort on Japanese Navy cryptosystems.

    https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322

    *Results* Starting in the 1980s, tobacco companies worked to create the appearance of broad opposition to tobacco control policies by attempting
    to create a grassroots smokers’ rights movement. Simultaneously, they
    funded and worked through third-party groups, such as Citizens for a
    Sound Economy, the predecessor of AFP and FreedomWorks, to accomplish
    their economic and political agenda. There has been continuity of some
    key players, strategies and messages from these groups to Tea Party organisations. As of 2012, the Tea Party was beginning to spread internationally.

    *Conclusions* Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that
    spontaneously developed in 2009, the Tea Party has developed over time,
    in part through decades of work by the tobacco industry and other
    corporate interests. It is important for tobacco control advocates in
    the USA and internationally, to anticipate and counter Tea Party
    opposition to tobacco control policies and ensure that policymakers, the
    media and the public understand the longstanding connection between the
    tobacco industry, the Tea Party and its associated organisations.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 14 08:55:12 2023
    On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 7:43:19 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:
    Have at!

    yawn

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Fri Jul 14 12:54:21 2023
    On 7/14/23 10:55 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 7:43:19 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:
    Have at!

    yawn

    Just no fun when they're real, yes?

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