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

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Bloomsbury 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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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
Index
367
A Note on the Authors
379
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Of Free Speech and Free Markets
240

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Naomi Oreskes is a professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her essay "Beyond the Ivory Tower" was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial.
Erik M. Conway is the resident historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Merchants of Doubt is their first book together.

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