Reported claimRated These claims are false. Scientists had used the phrase “fossil fuel” as early as 1759 before J.D. Rockefeller’s birth, and we have seen no evidence it was discussed by chemists at an 1892 meeting in Geneva about naming compounds. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “J.D. Rockefeller paid scientists to call oil a fossil fuel at the 1892 Geneva Convention to “induce the idea of scarcity”.” These claims are false. Scientists had used the phrase “fossil fuel” as early as 1759 before J.D. Rockefeller’s birth, and we have seen no evidence it was discussed by chemists at an 1892 meeting in Geneva about naming compounds..
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