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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... political persuasions. He is also very modest— soft-spoken, almost self-effacing—and from the small size and nonexistent décor of his office at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you might think he was an accountant. If you met ...
... political persuasions. He is also very modest— soft-spoken, almost self-effacing—and from the small size and nonexistent décor of his office at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you might think he was an accountant. If you met ...
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... political purposes.”8 The mud stuck, and the charges were widely echoed by industry groups, business-oriented newspapers and magazines, and think tanks. They remain on the Internet today. If you Google “Santer IPCC,” you get not the ...
... political purposes.”8 The mud stuck, and the charges were widely echoed by industry groups, business-oriented newspapers and magazines, and think tanks. They remain on the Internet today. If you Google “Santer IPCC,” you get not the ...
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... political agenda to expand government control over all aspects of our lives. Singer's anti-EPA report was funded by a grant from the Tobacco Institute, channeled through a think tank, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.13 Millions of ...
... political agenda to expand government control over all aspects of our lives. Singer's anti-EPA report was funded by a grant from the Tobacco Institute, channeled through a think tank, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.13 Millions of ...
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... politicians listened to them, using their claims as justification for inaction. President George H. W. Bush once even referred to them as “my scientists.”18 Although the situation is now a bit better, their views and arguments continue ...
... politicians listened to them, using their claims as justification for inaction. President George H. W. Bush once even referred to them as “my scientists.”18 Although the situation is now a bit better, their views and arguments continue ...
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... politicians including President Theodore Roosevelt—but nearly everyone abandoned eugenics in the '40s when the Nazis made manifest where that sort of thinking could lead. Little, however, remained convinced that essentially all human ...
... politicians including President Theodore Roosevelt—but nearly everyone abandoned eugenics in the '40s when the Nazis made manifest where that sort of thinking could lead. Little, however, remained convinced that essentially all human ...
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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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