George C. Marshall Institute Term Analysis

...publicly supported Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative on behalf of a conservative think tank called the George C. Marshall Institute . Both Seitz and Singer also worked for the tobacco industry: Seitz led the R.J.... (full context)

...sure about anything. Frederick Seitz kept using these same strategies for decades, starting with the George C. Marshall Institute . (full context)

...in a nuclear war. To promote such ideas, Jastrow and several other physicists founded the George C. Marshall Institute . They appointed Fred Seitz as its founding chairman. (full context)

The George C. Marshall Institute . Robert Jastrow decided to start a new think tank. He wanted to undermine the... (full context)

The Marshall Institute started publishing contrarian articles and demanding that journalists include their views in the name of... (full context)

...panel to review these conclusions. As its chair, he chose William Nierenberg—the cofounder of the Marshall Institute , who had never studied acid rain but already served in several prominent positions under... (full context)

...worsening at the Hubbard Brook forest, which was shrinking fast. And as of 2007, the George C. Marshall Institute is still calling acid rain a “largely hypothetical” threat that requires more research. Research by... (full context)

...to overthrow free-market capitalism by spreading lies about environmental threats. Thus, it’s clear why the Marshall Institute began repeating Singer’s claims and pro-business newspapers eagerly published them. (full context)

...EPA. Oreskes and Conway explain how the Philip Morris tobacco company began secretly funding the George C. Marshall Institute in exchange for press coverage defending secondhand smoke. Through the lobbyist Steven Milloy, Philip Morris... (full context)

Blaming the Sun. After his retirement, Bill Nierenberg joined the George C. Marshall Institute . In 1989, the Cold War was ending, so the Institute was pivoting from supporting... (full context)

...radiation levels would only have a minor effect, at most, on global temperatures. Yet the George C. Marshall Institute continued blaming the sun and publishing erroneous graphs, even after Bert Bolin and other climate... (full context)

...it wasn’t really scientific at all. And this strategy worked: the White House took the George C. Marshall Institute ’s reports seriously, even though they were never peer-reviewed and full of serious misrepresentations. (full context)