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Merchants of doubt

how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway
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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Main Author: Oreskes, Naomi
Other Authors: Conway, Erik M., 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Scientists > Professional ethics.
Science news > Moral and ethical aspects.
Democracy and science.
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Merchants Of Doubt
How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
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by Oreskes, Naomi
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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. 
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