This article is the culmination of many years of astrotuf lobbying by captains of destructive and corrupt industries. It highlights as the work of a man whose job it has been to assemble fake public-interest groups that make tobacco look good, to undermine the public welfare, to make powerful titans appear to be sympathetic grandmothers, to paint as corrupt the defenders of the defenseless.
The article is very well written, but it fails to actively point out corruption and unethical behavior. I expect the paper of record to point out lies and deceptions, not merely to note that certain people disagree with the Creation Science Group’s assertion that the earth is flat, the Citizens for Wonderful Things position paper on the idea that tobacco is a healthful tonic for nerves, or the Mountebanks and Patent Medicine Manufacturers of America press release on the subject of laudanum as a remedy for neurasthenia.
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