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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... 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 over ...
... 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 over ...
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... fact, because the boundary between these two atmospheric layers is in part defined by temperature, that boundary is now moving upward. In other words, the whole structure of our atmosphere is changing. These results are impossible to ...
... fact, because the boundary between these two atmospheric layers is in part defined by temperature, that boundary is now moving upward. In other words, the whole structure of our atmosphere is changing. These results are impossible to ...
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... facts. Had they “simply taken the time to familiarize [themselves] with IPCC rules of procedure,” he noted, they would have readily found out that no rules were violated, no procedures were transgressed, and nothing wrong had happened.6 ...
... facts. Had they “simply taken the time to familiarize [themselves] with IPCC rules of procedure,” he noted, they would have readily found out that no rules were violated, no procedures were transgressed, and nothing wrong had happened.6 ...
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... facts? Why did they continue to repeat charges long after they had been shown to be unfounded? The answer, of course ... fact, the proverbial rocket scientist—who became a leading figure in the development of Earth observation satellites ...
... facts? Why did they continue to repeat charges long after they had been shown to be unfounded? The answer, of course ... fact, the proverbial rocket scientist—who became a leading figure in the development of Earth observation satellites ...
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... fact fighters, providing example af- ter example of successful strategies for undermining science, and a list of experts with scientific credentials available to comment on any issue about which a think tank or corporation needed a ...
... fact fighters, providing example af- ter example of successful strategies for undermining science, and a list of experts with scientific credentials available to comment on any issue about which a think tank or corporation needed a ...
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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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