Just your friendly, neighbourhood Corn Lobbyist

[wolven7]

Corn Lobbyist Flames Technoccult Blog.

Has apparently been doing similar and worsse, for years.

Don't you think everyone ought to know about this?

Good Evening.

Comments

[drgnsyr.livejournal.com]

Unless he starts doing it later, I would hardly call his comment flaming. He presents the other side of the story. He doesn't try to hide the fact that he works for the company in question and actually brings up a point that had already occured to me while reading the original article. While the educated reader can ultimately decide to disagree with his assessment of the situation (or both assesments since neither deliver enough contemporary evidence from which to try a relevant conclusion), I feel that it is actually advantageous for him to leave such a comment. It never hurts to hear the other side of the story as long as you know the other side's biases.

The second link is actually a bit more damning. Trying to remove articles, while a regular practice of PR representitives, is a questionable way to handle inconvenient stories. Proving them untrue, and offering statements to that effect, is usually far more ethical. Choosing the former does give credence to the idea that a company is incapable of the latter.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Precisely. The new information is spun in such a manner as to make the findings indistinguishable, indecipherable. Much as was done with smoking, and the Phillip-Morris studies, they split details of causation, and commit fallacies such that findings remain "Inconclusive."

They do this, instead of having to make arguments that actually hold water.