A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
- Self
- (as Fred Singer)
- Self
- (as Stanton Glantz)
- Self - Climate Scientist
- (as Ben Santer)
- Self - Climate Scientist
- (as Michael Mann)
Storyline
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- GoofsRoughly 59 minutes into the documentary it cuts to an interview with James Taylor of the Heartland Institute. In the background an office worker in a mobility scooter reverses into doorway.
- Quotes
James Hansen: What we're up against is people who have a preferred answer, and so then they take the position of a lawyer. They're going to defend their client and they will only present you with the data that favors their client.
Now the climate change deniers come out, in the face of 97% worldwide consensus, peddling the same nonsense. The doubters don't contest the data, which is indisputable. They instead attack the motives of 97% of the climatologists in the world. And their intended audience buys it hook line and sinker yet again.
Reasonable doubt is essential to science, and in that meritocracy, the best explanation wins. Here, decades of data have made the situation clear. Yet, climate denier laymen, for some reason, choose to believe the 3% of scientists who are largely funded by the interests most likely to suffer financial harm should alternative energy be explored in full.
You can't fix stupid.
- sirjonk
- Jun 21, 2015
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- Şüphe Tüccarları
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $308,156
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,300
- Mar 8, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $308,156
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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