Exposing Denial

Vested Interests

Professor Scott Mandia talks about the role corporations have played in funding misinformation and confusing the public about the reality of climate change. ExxonMobil has waged the most successful and sophisticated science denial campaign since Big Tobacco’s campaign against the dangers of smoking.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Vested Interests, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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