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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... Chapter 8 of this report, “Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes,” summarized the evidence that global warming really was caused by greenhouse gases. Its author was Ben Santer. Santer had impeccable scientific ...
... Chapter 8 of this report, “Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes,” summarized the evidence that global warming really was caused by greenhouse gases. Its author was Ben Santer. Santer had impeccable scientific ...
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... chapter in question—much less the whole IPCC report—but instead a variety of sites that repeat the 1995 accusations.9 One site even asserts (falsely) that Santer admitted that he had “adjusted the data to make it fit with political ...
... chapter in question—much less the whole IPCC report—but instead a variety of sites that repeat the 1995 accusations.9 One site even asserts (falsely) that Santer admitted that he had “adjusted the data to make it fit with political ...
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... spread confusion on many of the most important issues of our time. It is a story about a pattern that continues today. A story about fighting facts, and merchandising doubt. CHAPTER 1 Doubt Is Our Product O n May 9, Introduction 9.
... spread confusion on many of the most important issues of our time. It is a story about a pattern that continues today. A story about fighting facts, and merchandising doubt. CHAPTER 1 Doubt Is Our Product O n May 9, Introduction 9.
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... CHAPTER 1. Doubt. Is. Our. Product. O. n May 9, 1979, a group of tobacco industry executives gathered to hear about an important new program. They had been invited by Colin H. Stokes, the former chairman of R. J. Reynolds, a company famous ...
... CHAPTER 1. Doubt. Is. Our. Product. O. n May 9, 1979, a group of tobacco industry executives gathered to hear about an important new program. They had been invited by Colin H. Stokes, the former chairman of R. J. Reynolds, a company famous ...
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... rain, and the ozone hole, all the way to global warming. Seitz and his colleagues would fight the facts and merchandise doubt all the way. CHAPTER 2 Strategic Defense, Phony Facts, and the Creation of Doubt Is Our Product 35.
... rain, and the ozone hole, all the way to global warming. Seitz and his colleagues would fight the facts and merchandise doubt all the way. CHAPTER 2 Strategic Defense, Phony Facts, and the Creation of Doubt Is Our Product 35.
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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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