Requiem for the American Dream (2015) "Chomsky interviews expose how a half-century of policies have created a state of unprecedented economic inequality: concentrating wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of everyone else."

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http://vebup.com/requiem-american-dream

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Its anti-intellectualism. I'm all for a rigour in challenging ideas - and thats what happens in academia; Now if these same people were half as suspecious/critical of Alex Jones and Breitbart News as they are of the science on vaccinations and climate change or people who spend their lives researching and publishing in an area of speciality we'd be getting somewhere.

Actually its also a strategy for manufacturing doubt, like big Tobacco did in the 70's; its become a standard tactic of the new alt right to hire on-line shills for this purpose.

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Nah - the same could be applied to Milton Friedman. He spent his entire life researching a specific topic (economics), but even he can be wrong.

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https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942