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bjourneyesterday at 11:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Holy fuck, Batman. No one's interested in that LLM verbiage. You made specific claims. Claim A:

"Environmentalist groups were in some cases entirely formed by fossil fuel interests."

It's clear from context that you're talking about genuine organizations and not astroturfing. So far you've not named a single one that was "entirely formed by fossil fuel interests."

Hence, pure fiction.


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consumer451yesterday at 11:53 PM

This is the most obtuse interaction I have ever had on this website. Is this simple enough?

> In 1969, Robert O. Anderson, an oil man whose long career included a stint as the Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) (now part of BP, the company formerly known as British Petroleum), gave David Brower $200,000 to start Friends of the Earth (FOE).

https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-robert-anderson/