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Chomsky literally gave heartfelt PR advice to Jeffrey Epstein on how to manage the "scandal"

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 27 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Manufacturing Consent, by Chomsky's own admission, was mainly written by Edward S. Herman, but he ends up more associated with it because he's more famous. He was also a bastard with a malignant influence on "the left" for several decades now.

I don't think he's that different from Dawkins, where he was a serious figure in his field but parlayed that into being a reactionary pseudo-intellectual in political commentary.