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Bird's Brain's avatar

Very interesting piece!

Where can I find evidence that the groups listed below are industry funded? Do you have links to that information?

"Industry influences and funds resistance groups such as Stand in the Park, The World Council for Health, Toby Young’s Economic Institute, Jordan Peterson’s ARC, the Reform party and the Tory party’s GB News."

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The Internet.

Toby Young 'Funding to the IEA from the alcohol industry, food industry, and sugar industry has also been documented.[70] IEA Research Fellow Christopher Snowdon disclosed alcohol industry funding in a response to a British Medical Journal article in 2014.[70]

In October 2018, an investigation by Greenpeace found that the IEA was also receiving funding from the oil giant BP, which was "[using] this access to press ministers on issues ranging from environmental and safety standards to British tax rates."[71] In May 2019, the British Medical Journal revealed that British American Tobacco was continuing to fund the IEA.[72][73]'

The Light carries ads for animal ag (a free newspaper carrying industry ads, what do you think the editorial will be heavily biased towards?) and The World Council for Health who themselves continue with pharma dogma.

People i met at Stand in the Park had been employed to hawk IVM and to promote animal ag and climate skepticism.

OIl and gas and climate skeptics have given over £1 million to Torys https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/oil-and-gas-firms-have-given-1m-to-boris-johnsons-conservatives/

Largest donor to Reform 'aviation fuel and tech' https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/18/reform-uk-limited-the-political-business-brought-to-you-by-billionaires/

ARC is bound up with Legatum, a merky organisation with the least transparency over donors. GB news also GB News has secured £60m in funding in order to make it to the airwaves.

Of this, £20m came from the American media company Discovery (the people behind such channels as Discovery Channel, Science Channel, TLC, Food Network and Animal Planet).

The remaining money came from two other sources; British hedge fund manager Paul Marshall, and Legatum, a private investment firm which is based in Dubai.'

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Bird's Brain's avatar

Excellent, thanks!

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