But anonymity invariably promotes skepticism about sources' motives.
By promoting skepticism and cynicism, programmatic change can inoculate companies against the real thing.
Within a few minutes, I had been retweeted by Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who relentlessly promotes skepticism about Russian influence.
For more than a decade now, climate scientists and their allies have linked Exxon money to groups that promote skepticism of the science underlying global warming.
Northam has dismissed Beacon Hill as "a Koch-funded group that promotes skepticism of climate change," in a reference to the conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.
Secular higher education invariably promotes skepticism about claims that sound dogmatic or are made without evidence; and if such education is of a type that emphasizes humane and universalistic values, an ignorant or unreasonable authoritarian regime is not likely to please the educated for very long.
That language, Scott points out, comes straight from the intelligent design literature and is aimed at promoting skepticism about evolution.
The second point of view came from the Heartland Institute, a conservative advocacy group that The Economist has deemed the "world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change".
More recently, the Economist called Heartland "the world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change," and the magazine didn't mean it as a compliment.
A report by Greenpeace revealed that, in the last decade, the secretive brothers' oil and manufacturing company channeled over $50 million to a number of front groups that promote skepticism about climate change.
With two children in public schools, I'm dismayed -- but not surprised -- to learn that the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, planned to pay $100,000 to a consultant to develop a school curriculum that would promote skepticism about the science of global warming.
