In the early 1950s, confronted by a wave of peer-reviewed studies indicating that smoking was causing lung and heart disease deaths, leaders of the tobacco industry embarked on a strategy to disrupt the process of knowledge production.
Their goal was to distort and undermine the emerging science. Rather than ignore research on smoking outcomes, they seized the chance to control and engineer that research and to manipulate the debate surrounding it.
Today, Big Abortion is following Big Tobacco’s old playbook.
