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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... scientific credentials, and he had never before been involved in even the suggestion of impropriety of any kind, but now a group of physicists tied to a think tank in Washington, D.C., accused him of doctoring the report to make the ...
... scientific credentials, and he had never before been involved in even the suggestion of impropriety of any kind, but now a group of physicists tied to a think tank in Washington, D.C., accused him of doctoring the report to make the ...
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... scientific evidence linking tobacco to cancer. The idea, the article explained, was to “keep the controversy alive.”11 So long as there was doubt about the causal link, the tobacco industry would be safe from litigation and regulation ...
... scientific evidence linking tobacco to cancer. The idea, the article explained, was to “keep the controversy alive.”11 So long as there was doubt about the causal link, the tobacco industry would be safe from litigation and regulation ...
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... scientific credentials available to comment on any issue about which a think tank or corporation needed a negative sound bite.14 In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think ...
... scientific credentials available to comment on any issue about which a think tank or corporation needed a negative sound bite.14 In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think ...
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... scientific agreement, even though they, themselves, were pretty much the only ones who disagreed. A handful of men would have had no impact if no one paid any attention, but people did pay attention. By virtue of their earlier work in ...
... scientific agreement, even though they, themselves, were pretty much the only ones who disagreed. A handful of men would have had no impact if no one paid any attention, but people did pay attention. By virtue of their earlier work in ...
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... scientific credentials to present themselves as authorities, and they used their authority to try to discredit any science they didn't like. Over the course of more than twenty years, these men did almost no original scientific research ...
... scientific credentials to present themselves as authorities, and they used their authority to try to discredit any science they didn't like. Over the course of more than twenty years, these men did almost no original scientific research ...
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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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