Spreading Misinformation || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Right into the 60s, in the last century, it was still being upheld that cigarette smoking

00:07keeps you vital and active when cancer cases started piling up.

00:12Then the tobacco industry started sponsoring a lot of so-called scientific reports that

00:21would say that there is nothing wrong with tobacco and that cigarettes are not at all

00:25harmful for human beings.

00:27Today you see on cigarette packs, not only is there a warning, but there is a gruesome

00:33warning.

00:34Now there is popular scientific consensus.

00:36But they agreed only after claiming millions of lives by spreading misinformation.

00:44Same with climate change.

00:46Now everybody is coming around to agree that yes, there is climate change and climate change

00:52is due to human activity.

00:55But they are trying to delay the inevitable.