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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.
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Oreskes, Naomi
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Conway, Erik M., 1965-
- Description
- 355 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781596916104 (hc.)
- 1596916109 (hc.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009043183
- OCLC
- 461631066
- SCSB-11667232
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library