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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... impacts would be if the mavericks were right. In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.” This wasn't just a few individuals; by 1995 the IPCC had grown to include several hundred climate ...
... impacts would be if the mavericks were right. In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.” This wasn't just a few individuals; by 1995 the IPCC had grown to include several hundred climate ...
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... impact if no one paid any attention, but people did pay attention. By virtue of their earlier work in the Cold War weapons programs, these men were well-known and highly respected in Washington, D.C., and had access to power all the way ...
... impact if no one paid any attention, but people did pay attention. By virtue of their earlier work in the Cold War weapons programs, these men were well-known and highly respected in Washington, D.C., and had access to power all the way ...
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... impact of stress, therapeutic drugs, and food additives (like saccharin) on the immune system. Another explored the relation between “the emotional framework and the state of... the immune system ... in a family of depressed patients ...
... impact of stress, therapeutic drugs, and food additives (like saccharin) on the immune system. Another explored the relation between “the emotional framework and the state of... the immune system ... in a family of depressed patients ...
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... impact on the stock market, but it was still a bombshell. Nearly half of all adult Americans smoked—many men had picked up the habit while serving their country during World War II or in Korea—and the surgeon general was telling them ...
... impact on the stock market, but it was still a bombshell. Nearly half of all adult Americans smoked—many men had picked up the habit while serving their country during World War II or in Korea—and the surgeon general was telling them ...
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... impact of their efforts. Did they deserve equal time? The simple answer is no. While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about ...
... impact of their efforts. Did they deserve equal time? The simple answer is no. While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about ...
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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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