Merchants of Doubt

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Last activity: 27.04.2020

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Inspired by the acclaimed book, MERCHANTS OF DOUBT takes audiences on a satirically comedic yet illu

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Location

United States, California, Beverly Hills

Employees

51-200

Founded date

2008

Mentions in press and media 23

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Apr 22, 2020	Facebook’s $5.7bn Reliance Jio deal will make it an even bigger player in Indian agrifood	Facebook is investing ₹436 billion ($5.7 billion) in Reliance Jio, India’s largest mobile network operator, in a deal that will have significant implications for the Indian agrifood ecosystem. The US tech giant is buying a stake of 9.99% in...
Aug 29, 2018	Red Delicious Apples Can Rot In Hell	Welcome to Actually, a safe space for us to share our deeply-held but likely-unpopular opinions about food and drinks. As children, we're fed so many lies: that we might grow up to be princesses or knights, rather than Excel-spreadsheet-fil...
Apr 9, 2018	Yet Another Dead Whale Is Grave Reminder Of Our Massive Plastic Problem	Sperm Whale plays with Plastic Waste (Photo by Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Oct 16, 2017	Silenced by ‘free speech’	There’s a fundamental incongruency between being inflexibly pro ‘free speech’ and operating a global social network for civil public discussion. Twitter is struggling with it. Facebook is struggling with it, too. And it can’t be solved by a...
Dec 9, 2014	New tool helps oyster growers fight acidification	Add oysters to the list of your favorite foods threatened by climate change. Dramatic failures of oyster populations began in 2006, when aquaculture operators saw die-offs of larvae rocket to 80 percent in the United States. At the time, th...
Nov 13, 2014	Twitter Testing Secret Filter To Stop Abuse: Is That A Good Thing Or An Attack On Free Speech?	For quite some time now, it’s become popular for people to point to some (often horrible) abuse on Twitter and demand that Twitter “do something” about it. It’s rather easy to find tons of articles calling for Twitter to do more.
Oct 22, 2014	SeaWorld building world’s biggest fish farm	Will the fish on your dinner plate come from SeaWorld one day? It could soon. Hubbs-SeaWorld, the nonprofit research center affiliated with the marine mammal theme park, has teamed up with a private equity firm to construct a 300,000-square...
Oct 21, 2014	Athletes, Fast Food, and the Long Con Killing America	"Republicans buy sneakers, too," declared Air Jordan in 1990. This was simple fact: in the game of corporate business, in the context of billions of dollars, red state or blue state affiliation matters little. What matters is syne...
Aug 8, 2014	EFF releases 'behind the scenes' footage of NSA flyover	At dawn on June 27th Greenpeace and the Tenth Amendment Center launched an airship to fly above the NSA data center in Utah. The message on the sides was not subtle -- "Illegal spying below", with an arrow pointing down. It was me...
Jul 9, 2014	“Internet’s Own Boy”: The Life & Legacy of Aaron Swartz	Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at bio. Aaron Swartz started computer programming at a very young age. First it was a Star Wars trivia game he made with his brother, but soon it was more than just kid stuff...
Jun 30, 2014	Scum Could be the Next Big Biofuel	Maybe scum isn’t such a bad thing. Over the last few weeks, studies and stories from around the world have indicated that both microscopic and macro-algae may actually be great sources of biofuel. “Microalgae produces much higher yields of ...
Jun 27, 2014	Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever	Aaron Swartz was a young, bright genius who believed in the open Internet. A self-made millionaire by the age of 19, he co-founded Reddit, was part of the creation of RSS and became a political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was inst...
Jun 24, 2014	Consumers seek out ‘natural’, ‘locally grown’ on product labels: survey	While a majority of people think that the “natural” label actually carries specific benefits, an even greater percentage of consumers think it should. More than eight out of 10 said they believe that packaged foods carrying the “natural” la...
Jun 18, 2014	Yeshiva University in $1B hole as risky investments fizzle	More On: yeshiva university He turned Yeshiva basketball into a title contender and Jewish sports beacon – and it’s just his side hustle Yeshiva University students sue to start LGBTQ club New York colleges flunked by experts for failure to...
Sep 6, 2013	The NSA has a back door to your encrypted data	Documents reveal how the NSA and GCHQ are getting around data encryption through "back doors" Well, here’s some news to ruin your Friday. Turns out, the NSA can get around many forms of encryption, according to newly released docu...
Mar 4, 2013	The ‘big data’ candidate: Pleitez pushes tech in Los Angeles mayoral race	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! LOS ANGELES – Democratic mayoral candidate Emanue...
Mar 4, 2013	The ‘big data’ candidate: Pleitez pushes tech in Los Angeles mayoral race	LOS ANGELES – Democratic mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez says his ‘big data’ expertise can help Los Angeles’ city government become more efficient and improve conditions in some of its poorest and most crime-plagued neighborhoods. Technol...
Feb 1, 2011	Peter Jackson Raises $2 Million To Go After Cause Marketers At The Experience Project	Cause marketing is taking off, with social networks like Facebook and Twitter providing the fuel, and companies are repositioning themselves to take advantage of these new marketing dollars. Peter Jackson, A silicon Valley veteran who was t...
Dec 15, 2010	Zipcar raises $21 million for car sharing	$20 million given by Meritech, $1 million from Pinnacle Ventures to expand its locations and fleet Having a car can be a joy, and a pain. There's nothing quite like driving on an open stretch of highway, the windows down, on a warm summer d...
Apr 23, 2010	Finally A Green Story I Can't Mock: The Sun Chips Biodegradable Bag	I love our planet as much as the next person, but I despise efforts by companies and people to get credit for caring about the earth with empty gestures. Like Pepsi’s ridiculous Aquafina press stunt. Or all this black screen Earth Day nonse...
Nov 10, 2009	Medical Mutual of Ohio launches real-time claims processing service	Promoted Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ...
	Medical Mutual of Ohio launches real-time claims processing service	Image by Alain-Christian via Flickr CLEVELAND, Ohio — Influenced by the rise of so-called “consumer-driven health care,” Medical Mutual of Ohio has launched a Web portal that allows for real-time claims adjudication at provider offices. The...

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FAQ about Merchants of Doubt

When was Merchants of Doubt founded?

Merchants of Doubt was founded in 2008.

What has the press written about Merchants of Doubt?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Merchants of Doubt, among them “Facebook’s $5.7bn Reliance Jio deal will make it an even bigger player in Indian agrifood” (Apr 22, 2020) and “Red Delicious Apples Can Rot In Hell” (Aug 29, 2018).

Is Merchants of Doubt still active?

Yes, Merchants of Doubt is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 27, 2020.