LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Andrew Follett Academic psychologists at several universities are studying how to”inoculate” the public against “fake news” about global warming. Researchers from Cambridge, Yale and George Mason University added a small dose of “misinformation” to statements about global warming, which they say helped make subjects more aware of “distortion tactics…
By Michael Bastasch A libertarian think tank was served with a subpoena by U.S. Virgin Islands prosecutors as part of a racketeering probe not long after Democratic attorneys general promised to investigate groups with ties to the oil industry for allegedly misleading the public on global warming. More subpoenas are likely on the way as…
By Michael Bastasch The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed a libertarian think tank after pledging to investigate ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public about global warming. AG Claude Walker served the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a D.C.-based free market think tank, with a subpoena Thursday, in an apparent effort to tie the…