The Business of Doubt Making | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Published 2023-07-26
Tobacco, climate change, pesticides... Never has scientific knowledge seemed so vast, detailed and shared. And yet it appears to be increasingly challenged.

It is no longer surprising to see private corporations put strategies in place to confuse the public debate and paralyze political decision-making. Overwhelmed by an excess of information, how can we, as citizens, sort out fact from fiction? One by one, this film dismantles the workings of this clever manoeuvre that aims to turn science against itself.

Thanks to declassified archives, graphic animations and testimonies from experts, lobbyists and politicians, this investigation plunges us into the science of doubt. Along with a team of experts (philosophers, economists, cognitive scientists, political men, or even agnotologists), we explore concrete examples of doubt making and try to understand the whole process and the issues behind it.

Documentary: Manufacturing Ignorance (2020)
Directors: Franck Cuveillier & Pascal Vasselin
A co-production by ARTE France & ZED

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All Comments (11)
  • @drchomesolar
    Turn down the foreign voice to help us hear the English. The overlap is hard to understand either language.
  • @karatikids
    Narrator should be higher volume than clips if speaking at the same time. Hard to make sense. Would be much better if only one primary audio source. Though some important parts are hard to hear overall great content and well made...maybe re mix the audio?
  • The music makes it impossible to watch the video. Please remove the music!
  • @MB-kv3vw
    Such an impactful video ruined by the audio mix, why on earth would you release it like that!
  • @exdus235
    Subtitles might be better than voice clashing with voice? đŸ€
  • Yo new subscribers here,good documentary,thanks for all your time and effort!! Not too sure about vaccinations, they have or do work in certain circumstances, but it's without an incline of doubt they certainly didn't do anything to stop the spread of or eliminate any symptoms of Covid 19!!!
  • @MikaJarvi86
    Funny how this went from: 1) big business financing one sided contrarian science in order to make profits (=bad), to: 2) big government financing one sided science to get more taxes (=good) There are way way more special interest groups pushin for climate change agenda, while any sane person questioning it needs to finance their research from their own savings, since no special interest groups can benefit if we conclude that there are no climate change, and stop burning the tax payers money (which is btw, borrowed from the international financiers, since all governments have been loaded with debt, and are spending away the future of the young generations, who will have to pick up the bill eventually)
  • “Proximal origins” is case in point that “science” is not always based on actual science.
  • SCIENCE! It's half-a-century after the Moon landing. Can scientists figure out if planned obsolescence is happening in automobiles? Where is the data on the annual depreciation of automobiles since Sputnik? Has it occurred to scientists to ask?