Merchants of doubt how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
"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...
| Main Author: | Oreskes, Naomi. |
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| Other Authors: | Conway, Erik M., 1965- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.