Every time corporations want to shove their poisons down our throats, they claim to have a monopoly on “science.” Anyone who disagrees with the corporate propaganda is then labeled “anti-science.”

This tactic didn’t originate with the biotech industry, Big Pharma or vaccine pushers: it was also a favorite tactic of Big Tobacco, an industry that dominated the “science” of the time by financially influencing science journals, medical journals and the mainstream media.

Thanks to Big Tobacco’s financial influence, the truth about smoking causing cancer and heart disease remained buried for decades. The American Medical Association even supported Big Tobacco with full-page ads and the endorsement of cigarettes by AMA-member physicians. Remember the ad, “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette”? That’s the same kind of industry propaganda that’s pushing vaccines today.

Check out this astonishing Big Tobacco ad from 1953 that claims “scientific evidence” proves smoking is harmless!

Here’s the text of the ad:

NOW… Scientific Evidence on Effects of Smoking!

A medical specialist is making a regular bi-monthly examination of a group of people from various walks of life. 45 percent of this group have smoked Chesterfield for an average of over ten years.

After ten months, the medical specialist reports that he observed…

no adverse effects of the nose, throat and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield.

MUCH MILDER CHESTERFIELD IS BEST FOR YOU

April, 1953.

And here’s a new infographic explaining how the vaccine industry’s “science” is based on almost exactly the same lies as Big Tobacco’s “science.”