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Topic: Fear-mongering

Fear-mongering is the tactic of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue for political or financial gain.

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The podcast episodes provided discuss the use of fear and alarmism in media reports, particularly in the context of climate change and environmental issues.

Episode 2344: How to Lift Weights to Improve Your Golf Game, Tips to Avoid Injury When Getting Back Into a Sport, Ways to Overcome Nerve Pain & More (Listener Live Coaching) criticizes the tendency of activists to utilize fear-mongering rhetoric and manufacture new hypothetical threats.

Episode 439. Fake Invisible Catastrophes | Patrick Moore features a discussion with a former Greenpeace leader who argues that modern environmental groups are driven by anti-capitalist agendas over science, and that the fear-mongering around climate change is not supported by evidence.

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