Former editor in chief of Scientific American rails against the "denialist" messages of a "disinformation propaganda machine"

Revkin’s False Equivalence on Climate Message Machines | John Rennie

Their illustration then shows interplay among the fossil fuel industry, corporate America, conservative foundations and think tanks, the media, astroturf groups and so on for promoting various denialist messages.
...Dunlap and McCright made the point that they were showing the workings of a disinformation propaganda machine, one that misrepresented science with a fixed goal of preventing policies contrary to corporate and rightwing interests. Was Andy implying that those on the climate activism side were an equivalent kind of propaganda machine, even though the case for the reality and gravity of climate change is much better validated by the scientific literature? It seemed unlikely, but he seemed to let his readers think so. (And, goodness, where is the equally important caveat that not everyone on the climate activism side is part of that machine?)

John Rennie | Retort

John Rennie served as editor in chief of Scientific American between 1994 and 2009