Merchants of doubt
how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Merchants of doubt
how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Book - 2010
"Merchants of Doubt " tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Merchants of doubt : |b how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / |c Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. |
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| 520 | |a "Merchants of Doubt " tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Doubt is our product -- Strategic defense, phony facts and the creation of the George C. Marshall Institute -- Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain -- Constructing a counternarrative : the fight over the ozone hole -- What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over secondhand smoke -- The denial of global warming -- Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson -- Conclusion : of free speech and free markets -- Epilogue : a new view of science. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Democracy and science. | |
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