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.

"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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oreskes, Naomi
Other Authors: Conway, Erik M., 1965-
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Physical Description:355 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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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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