Title:
Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Author:
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Edition:
First U.S. edition
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
355 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781596916104
9781608193943
Abstract:
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.
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.
Language:
English
