Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global WarmingBloomsbury Publishing USA, 31. 5. 2011 - 355 strán (strany) "Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed director of Food Inc., Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talked-about climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversial 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. The same individuals who claim the science of global warming is "not settled" have also denied the truth about 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. |
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... Defense, Phony Facts, and the Creation of the George C. Marshall Institute 36 3. Sowing the Seeds of Doubt: Acid Rain 66 4. Constructing a Counternarrative: The Fight over the Ozone Hole 107 5. What's Bad Science? Who Decides? The Fight ...
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Introduction | 1 |
1 Doubt Is Our Product | 10 |
2 Strategic Defense Phony Facts and the Creation of the George C Marshall Institute | 36 |
Acid Rain | 66 |
The Fight over the Ozone Hole | 107 |
5 Whats Bad Science? Who Decides? The Fight over Secondhand Smoke | 136 |
6 The Denial of Global Warming | 169 |
The Revisionist Attack on Rachel Carson | 216 |
A New View of Science | 266 |
Postscript | 275 |
Acknowledgments | 289 |
Permissions | 291 |
Notes | 293 |
367 | |
A Note on the Authors | 379 |
Of Free Speech and Free Markets | 240 |