“…In a more recent paper, Blacker, Kimura, and Kinchy (2021) showed how corporate interests have used what they call “public relations citizen science” to deflect attention away from environmental harm, thus improving their public image. The corporate interests achieve these goals in several ways: by attaching a “‘sustainable’ image to a polluting industry, without changing its core practices,” by designing projects in ways that direct attention away from the particular problems caused by the industry’s practices or products, and by emphasizing “rational” approaches to industry instead of “emotional” or “ideological” perspectives (Blacker, Kimura, and Kinchy 2021, 1). The key point is that corporations, which already have substantial economic power, use the forms of citizen science to reinforce and add to that power.…”