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Matt Taibbi’s TK News Joins the List of Media Outlets Alarmed at Facebook Censorship
Willingham’s willingness to ignore inconvenient facts when she is protecting science likely explains why Sense About Science awarded her their John Maddox Prize for “standing up for science.” Since you’re realizing that Willingham is not the most trustworthy source of information, you’re probably wondering, “Who the hell is Sense About Science?” In a deep dive look at Sense About Science, The Intercept wrote that the group uses the “sound science” phrase to tip the scales of scientific controversies in favor of industry. Meanwhile, court documents show that Monsanto appears to have coordinated on messaging with Sense About Science to attack cancer experts who found a Monsanto pesticide was harming people.The pharmaceutical industry is no stranger to fake news - STAT
The DCI Group’s founders began their careers running a campaign for tobacco called the smoker’s rights movement, which sought to reframe public health concerns over secondhand smoke as a matter of personal choice and freedom. The DCI Group also helped block bills to permit the reimportation of FDA approved drugs. Turing Pharmaceuticals hired DCI to help CEO Martin Shkreli when he came under legal scrutiny for high drug prices and securities fraud.
The lobbying law relies on self-reporting and has no serious enforcement behind it: if you estimate that you spend less than 20 percent of your work hours lobbying, you don't have to register.
It is akin to filing taxes with no risk of an audit, said Meredith McGehee, policy director of the Campaign Legal Center and part of an American Bar Association task force that urged revisions to lobbying rules in 2011.
An electronic payment, for instance, costs the government only 9 cents to process, compared with $1.25 for a paper check, the Treasury Department says.At Treasury, which last year suspended most paper mailings for all but the very aged and those with “mental impairments,” officials estimate the shift will save $1 billion over 10 years. The move by the Social Security Administration in 2011 to stop mailing paper earnings statements to 150 million Americans is saving $72 million a year.For the paper industry, the stakes are high. The digital age has ravaged sales of envelopes, office paper, catalogues and pulp products, with industry analysts saying that demand for paper products dropped 5 percent on average in each of the past five years. Mills have closed, and thousands of employees have been laid off.