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=== Tatics Used By Misinformers ===

  * Pick information that supports their claims (correct or incorrect information
  * Relying on common people who push misinformation
  * Incorrect Reasoning (reasoning fallacies, discounting facts, falling back to name-calling/emotion manipulation)
  * Goal-post moving and high-expectations before accepting new belief


=== Misc ===


Climate change example
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.665



Yale and George Mason universities have found only about 15% of Americans are aware that the expert climate consensus exceeds 90%

“Victory will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science”


"The antidote to climate denialists is to expose the full nature of their financial and ideological corruption, and the similarity of their argumentative strategy to that used in other trumped-up denialist movements about evolution, vaccines, and the shape of the Earth" -  How to Talk to a Science Denier

Tobacco Industry - “Doubt is our product" https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/70894/WHO_NMH_TFI_12.1_eng.pdf;jsessionid=6DD3940E52AE2E4DF661C734B6DD0D29?sequence=1