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Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
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Deception of scientists, denial of scientific facts.

"Merchants of Doubt" is a must-read book for those interested in the science behind government policies and corporate manipulation. The book clearly outlines the ways in which a handful of scientists and advisers have misled the public to deny scientific evidence. The book's unique feature is that it includes the stories of the same scientists who denied the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, acid rain and coal smoke, and global warming and CO2 emissions. It is an eye-opening read for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of public health and environmental issues.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
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ISBN: 9781596916104
Authors: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Date of Publication: 2010-05-25
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, History, Politics, Science, Economics
Related Topics: Politics, History
Goodreads rating: 4.17
(rated by 6863 readers)

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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.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. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly—some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it.Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
 

Deception of scientists, denial of scientific facts.

"Merchants of Doubt" is a must-read book for those interested in the science behind government policies and corporate manipulation. The book clearly outlines the ways in which a handful of scientists and advisers have misled the public to deny scientific evidence. The book's unique feature is that it includes the stories of the same scientists who denied the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, acid rain and coal smoke, and global warming and CO2 emissions. It is an eye-opening read for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of public health and environmental issues.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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