{"id":374930,"date":"2025-04-13T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374930"},"modified":"2025-04-13T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:51:29","slug":"why-has-the-daily-sceptic-been-put-on-tortoise-medias-climate-naughty-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374930","title":{"rendered":"Why Has the Daily Sceptic Been Put on Tortoise Media\u2019s Climate Naughty List?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"374931\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=374931\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?fit=1389%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1389,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?fit=723%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?resize=723%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?resize=1024%2C566&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?resize=768%2C425&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?resize=1200%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-11-161316.jpeg?w=1389&amp;ssl=1 1389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/04\/12\/why-has-the-daily-sceptic-been-put-on-tortoise-medias-climate-naughty-list\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/benjamin-pile\/\">Ben Pile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, slow news website\u00a0<em>Tortoise\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 which recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2025\/apr\/07\/observer-faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquired the\u00a0<em>Observer<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 launched an \u201cinteractive database and visualisation tool highlighting the volume of online misinformation surrounding climate change\u201d called \u2018Hot Air\u2019. Over the ensuing 48 hours, and after more than 13,000 views, a whopping 26 people liked the project\u2019s inaugural Tweet, and a further seven shared it. But despite such seismic impact, Hot Air is neither the first of its kind and it probably won\u2019t be the last either. And that\u2019s because, no matter how facile an idea is, there is so much Green Blob cash available to fake news and fake research outfits that the movement and its adherents have lost any capacity for reason.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1009\" data-attachment-id=\"374934\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=374934\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-376.png?fit=734%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"734,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-376.png?fit=723%2C1009&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-376.png?resize=723%2C1009&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-376.png?w=734&amp;ssl=1 734w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-376.png?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tortoise&nbsp;<\/em>boast that Hot Air has been developed with an outfit called \u201cC3DS\u201d based at the University of Exeter \u2013 which is also home to the \u2018Greenpeace Research Laboratories\u2019, or \u2018science unit\u2019, the origin of much fake news. The Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c3ds.ex.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C3DS<\/a>, claims to \u201cimprove strategic communications to deliver meaningful action on climate change\u201d, which it supports with \u201cAI and social science research\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the observations I\u2019ve made of such outfits that now litter UK campuses is that their ideology, and often their corporate benefactors\u2019 names, are written on their doors, and that is manifestly a problem for \u2018knowledge producers\u2019 and so-called \u2018scholarship\u2019. One of the conceits of academia, perhaps now outmoded, is that the academy was a forum for open debate. But such exclusionary statements aren\u2019t merely barriers to objectivity. An organisation that intends to work to \u201cimprove strategic communications\u201d is a communications outfit, not an academic research outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to any university\u2019s politics department, for example, and you will find the inevitable surfeit of self-identifying Marxists. But you will often also find their quieter colleagues. Some will be on the social democratic Left. Some will be adherents to the ideas of liberal theorists, such as John Rawls. And there will even be a few conservatives. But a&nbsp;<em>School of Marxism at the University of Wokeshire<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 that would exclude the social democrats, the Rawlsians and the conservatives, who will not be invited to participate, even if they ever thought to apply. The sign on the door says \u2018not welcome\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, it is with \u2018research\u2019 organisations whose missions&#8217; statements are so clearly aligned to policy agendas and grounded in particular ideological perspectives. But what if academics wanted to research the rights and wrongs of using universities to develop \u201cstrategic communications\u201d for political agendas, especially the climate agenda\u00a0<em>objectively<\/em>? Well, you might say that they would be free to pursue their research interests from some other part of the campus. But that would assume that the campus is set up for free inquiry. And it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C3DS\u2019s co-founder,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/experts.exeter.ac.uk\/21220-saffron-o'neill\/grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Saffron O\u2019Neill<\/a>, for example, was the grantee of \u00a31,654,675 from anonymous \u2018philanthropic\u2019 funders in 2023-25. In 2021, she was co-beneficiary of a&nbsp;\u00a36,249,934 \u201cESRC Climate and Environment Leadership Grant\u201d \u2013 public money funnelled through universities to service a political agenda. Between them,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c3ds.ex.ac.uk\/people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">O\u2019Neill\u2019s 14 colleagues<\/a>&nbsp;boast many millions of pounds in funding from green philanthropists and the British taxpayer. And of course, from Octopus Energy. Well, nobody\u2019s going to save the planet with \u201cstrategic communications\u201d for free, are they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how effective are these strategic communications? It would appear that the data and the technology have been provided by the Exeter researchers to&nbsp;<em>Tortoise<\/em>, and at least 26 people think it\u2019s a great idea. But what did they get out of it? I headed over to the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tortoisemedia.com\/hot-air-explore-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tool<\/a>\u201d (the preferred term for searchable online databases of this kind) to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The academics appear to have scraped thousands of tweets and articles since 2021 by authors such as yours truly, each of which has been categorised as \u201cdeny\u201d, \u201cdelay\u201d or \u201ccontrol\u201d. An example of \u201cdeny\u201d is the statement \u201cclimate change is not happening\u201d. An example of \u201cdelay\u201d is \u201cclimate change might be real, but we need to slow down rollout of green policies\u201d. And \u201ccontrol\u201d means statements such as \u201cclimate change policies are more about controlling the public than addressing global warming\u201d. You can search for all these statements by author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u2019s climate offerings are included. For example, my article from December, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/12\/15\/ed-miliband-triples-down-on-energy-suicide\/\">Ed Miliband Triples Down on Energy Suicide<\/a>\u2019, is categorised as \u201cdelay\u201d. In the article, I criticised the Government\u2019s \u201cClean Power Action Plan\u201d. I argued that the plan is \u201ca rushed policy agenda that clashes with the reality emerging throughout Europe and the UK, in complete defiance of the facts and utterly indifferent to the experience of the country\u2019s industries, businesses and households\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"856\" data-attachment-id=\"374935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=374935\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-377.png?fit=738%2C874&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"738,874\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-377.png?fit=723%2C856&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-377.png?resize=723%2C856&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-377.png?w=738&amp;ssl=1 738w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-377.png?resize=253%2C300&amp;ssl=1 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can see why someone \u2013 perhaps a fan of Miliband and his extremely expensive policy agenda \u2013 might want to object to it. But what\u2019s less clear is how a database of tweets and articles, which merely designate each offending text as \u201cdeny\u201d, \u201cdelay\u201d or \u201ccontrol\u201d, answers any argument in my article or in the thousands of other tweets and articles that C3DS\u2019s AI-bots have scanned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point of such lists seems to be to encourage the kind of midwit that requires his thoughts to be pre-chewed by a higher authority that feels itself to have been traduced by the enumerated miscreants. And&nbsp;<em>Tortoise<\/em>, which is on that&nbsp;<em>Guardian-Byline Times<\/em>&nbsp;axis, caters precisely for such an audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very far from \u201cstrategic communications\u201d of any consequence, making lists of people you don\u2019t like and filing their work under pejorative categories such as \u2018pooh-pooh head\u2019 or \u2018smelly bum\u2019 is simply lame. Yet it has become the&nbsp;<em>modus operandi&nbsp;<\/em>of (fake) news media organisations, (fake) civil society organisations and (fake) research organisations, using public money. Despite the many millions of pounds, and despite their capture of centres of learning, establishment entities apparently have no capacity to hire anyone capable of engaging with critics of their favoured policy agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that\u2019s why the Hot Air project, which will inform nobody of anything, which will change not one single mind, and which stands as a failure of \u201cstrategic communication\u201d, is nonetheless worth commenting on. It is a very useful demonstration of how they think. (If thinking is what they do.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can file it under \u201ccontrol\u201d, if you wish \u2013 and hello to you, if you came to this article from Hot Air \u2013 but doing so does not answer the fact that such half-baked attempts to use technology to classify and monitor critics\u2019 conversations demonstrate the establishment\u2019s total intellectual exhaustion in the face of growing public resentment of governmental intransigence and its inevitable failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January last year, I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/netzeroscandal.substack.com\/p\/the-outsourced-net-zero-stasi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;on a similar project that pro-censorship activists at the Centre for Countering Digital Hate had put together \u2013 again, on Green Blob billionaires\u2019 coins. The report, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/counterhate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CCDH-The-New-Climate-Denial_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Climate Denial<\/a>\u2018, had trained an AI to scan the transcripts of YouTube videos published by evil climate deniers (such as yours truly, again). The AI then categorised the transcripts according to a taxonomy of \u201ctechniques of climate denial\u201d \u2013 larger, perhaps, but ultimately no more sophisticated than C3DS\u2019s, developed by academic-activist psychologist John Cook. \u201cTesting indicates the model is 78% accurate in categorising claims in our dataset,\u201d the report boasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not even a single human had been involved in the slander of 96 climate commentators who stood accused by the AI and its taxonomy of \u2018denial\u2019. And it is no surprise to me that the people that populate such institutions have no confidence in themselves to take on our ideas. Because, after 20 years of trying to engage them in critical debate about their secular religion, I have yet to meet a single one of them with anything of consequence between the ears. If you have to get ChatGPT to do your homework, you\u2019re not a student, you\u2019re not a researcher and you\u2019re not an academic. And the same goes for the lame journalism of the Tortoises. Slow indeed it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stop Press<\/strong>: Guido&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/order-order.com\/2025\/04\/11\/slow-news-tortoise-media-sheds-readers-at-breakneck-speed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<em>Tortoise&nbsp;<\/em>readership has almost halved in the three months since January. \u201cAnalysis of internet traffic on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.similarweb.com\/?ntflow=marketing#\/digitalsuite\/websiteanalysis\/overview\/website-performance\/*\/999\/3m?webSource=Total&amp;key=tortoisemedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SimilarWeb<\/a>&nbsp;shows a massive drop in&nbsp;<em>Tortoise&nbsp;<\/em>readership from 465,560 in January to 242,328 in March.&nbsp;A 48% decline.\u201d And it\u2019s already a loss-making outfit, reporting a loss of \u00a33.8 million for 2023, down only a bit from \u00a34.6 million in 2022. Clearly, the&nbsp;<em>Observer&nbsp;<\/em>is in safe hands\u2026 Perhaps fanatical climatism and witch-hunts of dissenters aren\u2019t what the punters are looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stop Press 2<\/strong>: David Turver&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/7Kiwi\/status\/1910607136712728941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweets<\/a>&nbsp;that the list actually serves as a handy guide to who\u2019s who in the sceptical world. \u201cA new \u2018misinformation\u2019 database produced by Tortoise Media, C3DS and sponsored by Octopus Energy turns into showcase for Net Zero scepticism. Helpfully, you can filter the database by author. Yours truly is the highest ranked UK individual, with US creators like Tom Nelson, Steve Milloy and Alex Epstein topping the list.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new &#8220;misinformation&#8221; database produced by Tortoise Media, C3DS &amp; sponsored by Octopus Energy turns into showcase for Net Zero scepticism. A thread (1\/n)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kA1Ih8hVi1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/kA1Ih8hVi1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 David Turver (@7Kiwi)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7Kiwi\/status\/1910607136712728941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">April 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"542\" data-attachment-id=\"374940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=374940\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?fit=723%2C542&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=723%2C542&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-378.png?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Created with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/grok\">Grok<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, slow news website Tortoise \u2013 which recently acquired the Observer \u2013 launched an \u201cinteractive database and visualisation tool highlighting the volume of online misinformation surrounding climate change\u201d called \u2018Hot Air\u2019. 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