Manufacturing Ignorance
23/11/2020
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 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.
Movie Information
Pascal Vasselin
as Narrator (voice)
Fani Hatjina
as Herself
Matthias Groß
as Himself
Linsey McGoey
as Herself
Naomi Oreskes
as Herself
Stéphane Foucart
as Himself
Catherine Collinet
as Herself (archive footage)
Stanton A. Glantz
as Himself
Yves Gingras
as Himself
Stephan Lewandowsky
as Himself
Marcel Goldberg
as Himself
Carlos Sonnenschein
as Himself
Ana Soto
as Herself
Frederick vom Saal
as Himself
Erwin Neher
as Himself
Steven Milloy
as Himself (archive footage)
David Chavalarias
as Himself
James M. Taylor
as Himself
Jim Lakely
as Himself
Frederick Singer
as Himself (archive footage)
Morton Downey, Jr.
as Himself (archive footage)
