Brad — of course, you are absolutely correct. Both industries hired PR firms that, in turn, hired so-called experts to invent ‘facts’ to disprove what the legitimate scientists were discovering: cigarettes' = cancer and fossil fuels = ecological destruction. My point is that FACTS are either indisputable DATA drawn and curated by experts in the field. That is how Americans can (and all people) can make the decisions necessary to make life better. I am not naïve. I am merely pointing out that an incompetent former president and his minions are responsible for blatant lies…i.e ‘global warming is a hoax that the Chinese have started’