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Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him

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542 points xbmcuser | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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Tade0 ◴[27 Aug 25 09:22 UTC] No.45037214[source]▶
A major reason I don't treat conspiracy theorists seriously is that with all their paranoia they have a huge blind spot for the Captain-Planet-cartoon-villainy the oil industry is engaging in.

Just the stuff the Heartland Institute does is enough to write a book about and still not a peep from the usual crowd.

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MomsAVoxell ◴[27 Aug 25 09:39 UTC] No.45037331[source]▶
If you don't treat conspiracy theorists seriously, how would you know if the conspiracy theory scene has already addressed oil industry corruption?

The War-for-Oil conspiracy theories are proven correct.

The suppression of 'free energy' is discussed widely as being a result of oil-industry repression.

And on and on.

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1. Dylan16807 ◴[27 Aug 25 09:45 UTC] No.45037376[source]▶
You can learn about a scene without thinking they're competent.

It doesn't really prove war for oil, war tends to mess up production and also we have a huge amount of domestic production. But that depends on what exactly the claims are.

"Free energy" doesn't exist so that just goes back to them barking up the wrong tree. It's taking a real villain and blaming them for nonsense instead of something they actually do.