Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global WarmingBloomsbury Publishing USA, 3. 6. 2010 - 368 strán (strany) 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. |
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... policy makers and the public.”3 Santer had made changes to the report, but not to deceive anyone. The changes were made in response to review comments from fellow scientists. Every scientific paper and report has to go through the ...
... policy makers and the public.”3 Santer had made changes to the report, but not to deceive anyone. The changes were made in response to review comments from fellow scientists. Every scientific paper and report has to go through the ...
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... policy,” as if the U.S. government even had a climate policy to adjust the data to fit. (We didn't in 1995, and we still don't.)10 The experience was bitter for Santer, who spent enormous amounts of time and energy defending his ...
... policy,” as if the U.S. government even had a climate policy to adjust the data to fit. (We didn't in 1995, and we still don't.)10 The experience was bitter for Santer, who spent enormous amounts of time and energy defending his ...
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... policy makers, and the general public insisting there was no cause for alarm. The industry's position was that there was “no proof” that tobacco was bad, and they fostered that position by manufacturing a “debate,” convincing the mass ...
... policy makers, and the general public insisting there was no cause for alarm. The industry's position was that there was “no proof” that tobacco was bad, and they fostered that position by manufacturing a “debate,” convincing the mass ...
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... echelons of American science and policy. From 1962 to 1969, he served as president of the National Academy of Sciences and as ex officio member of the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee. In Doubt Is Our Product 25.
... echelons of American science and policy. From 1962 to 1969, he served as president of the National Academy of Sciences and as ex officio member of the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee. In Doubt Is Our Product 25.
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... policy of détente—the U.S.-Soviet effort to move toward more peaceful relations. Détente was about finding ways to coexist peacefully with the Soviet Union; Seitz found that morally repugnant, believing that the Soviets would use ...
... policy of détente—the U.S.-Soviet effort to move toward more peaceful relations. Détente was about finding ways to coexist peacefully with the Soviet Union; Seitz found that morally repugnant, believing that the Soviets would use ...
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Acid Rain | 66 |
Whats Bad Science? Who Decides? | 136 |
The Denial of Global Warming | 169 |
The Revisionist | 216 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
Index | 345 |
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