Ep. 1937 Patrick Moore on Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace but left the organization when he thought it had drifted into anti-science hysteria. In his new book Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, he reviews case after case of scare stories that turned out to have nothing behind them. Special Offer: We love our monthly Happily date box — it's full of games, recipes, and activities that bring us closer together. With a different theme each month, it's something we're always thrilled to receive. Take 50% off your first date at

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1937,
0:03.3	prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.5	Hey folks, you know as well as I do, the conventional wisdom is so often,
0:18.3	not just wrong, but catastrophically wrong.
0:21.2	And if we don't challenge it, it will keep on doing damage.
0:24.5	One such narrative, the claim that deregulation caused the financial crisis of
0:29.3	2008.
0:30.3	That's totally false and you should be able to smash that at a moment's notice.
0:34.3	You can do so with my free ebook, The deregulation boogieman.
0:39.1	Check it out at regulation myths.com.
0:43.1	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, our friend Patrick Moore, one of the founders of
0:47.0	Greenpeace is back with us today.
0:49.1	He's got a brand new book called Fake Invisible Catastrophies and Threats of Doom.
0:53.5	You just have to love the title.
0:55.1	The book is outstanding.
0:56.6	It's short.
0:57.2	It's a quick read, but it is devastating and exposing example,
1:01.8	for example, of things that haven't just been distorted, but have been invented
1:06.1	out of whole cloth.
1:07.5	It's unbelievable, really, unbelievable, the kinds of things that we've been misled
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