Working from Naomi Oreske and Erik Conway’s acclaimed book, Robert
Kenner (FOOD INC.) crafts an entertaining and thoughtful investigation of
an acute problem: the pro-industry science deniers. From the advocates
of nuclear deterrence, to the peddling of pseudo-science by cigarette
manufacturers to deniers of climate change—perhaps today’s most urgent
scientific and political issue—Kenner exposes the ways that industryfunded
professional deniers deliberately mystify what the scientific
community considers settled facts. A startling array of climate change
deniers cheerfully admit to their distortions and Kenner is able to locate
the ideological convictions that are driving them. Particularly moving is
one arch-conservative U.S. Congressman who decided to go to Antarctica
to check out the state of the polar ice caps for himself. Shaken by what he
saw, he returned to oppose his old die-hard ideological allies.
虽然书里的很多内容没拍出来,但还是很有意思的片子!所谓的科学不一定真实,公众的想法轻而易举地被数据和精心编排的说辞操纵。所有需要政府参与regulate的话题都有为了商人的利益而出现的群体呈现另一番“事实”。。。
2014 Savannah Film Festival. Great visuals as a documentary.
非常好。
感觉有些过于简化事件原由,把所有罪恶栽到烟草公司头上确实是轻便了事的做法。