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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... Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming NAOMI ORESKES and ERIK M. CONWAY Bloomsbury Press New York • Berlin • London Copyright © 2010 by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
... Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming NAOMI ORESKES and ERIK M. CONWAY Bloomsbury Press New York • Berlin • London Copyright © 2010 by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
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... Press, New York All papers used by Bloomsbury Press are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in well-managed forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. LIBRARY OF ...
... Press, New York All papers used by Bloomsbury Press are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in well-managed forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. LIBRARY OF ...
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... press coverage for their views, and how to pressure the media when they didn't. They used their scientific credentials to present themselves as authorities, and they used their authority to try to discredit any science they didn't like ...
... press coverage for their views, and how to pressure the media when they didn't. They used their scientific credentials to present themselves as authorities, and they used their authority to try to discredit any science they didn't like ...
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... press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false? This is the story we are about to tell. It is a story about a group of scientists who fought the scientific evidence and ...
... press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false? This is the story we are about to tell. It is a story about a group of scientists who fought the scientific evidence and ...
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... press attention: the New York Times and Life magazine had both covered it, and Reader's Digest—the most widely read publication in the world—ran a piece entitled “Cancer by the Carton.”20 Perhaps the journalists and editors were ...
... press attention: the New York Times and Life magazine had both covered it, and Reader's Digest—the most widely read publication in the world—ran a piece entitled “Cancer by the Carton.”20 Perhaps the journalists and editors were ...
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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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