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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... Defense, Phony 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 ...
... Defense, Phony 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 ...
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... Defense Initiative (SDI or “Star Wars”). And both had previously worked for the tobacco industry, helping to cast doubt on the scientific evidence linking smoking to death. From 1979 to 1985, Fred Seitz directed a program for R. J. ...
... Defense Initiative (SDI or “Star Wars”). And both had previously worked for the tobacco industry, helping to cast doubt on the scientific evidence linking smoking to death. From 1979 to 1985, Fred Seitz directed a program for R. J. ...
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... defense mechanisms and was on the verge of creating the first transgenic organism.7 Another was Stanley B. Prusiner, the discoverer of prions—the folded proteins that cause mad cow disease—for which he later won the Nobel Prize in ...
... defense mechanisms and was on the verge of creating the first transgenic organism.7 Another was Stanley B. Prusiner, the discoverer of prions—the folded proteins that cause mad cow disease—for which he later won the Nobel Prize in ...
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... defense of the product.”14 Above all, it would supply witnesses. By the late 1970s, scores of lawsuits had been filed claiming personal injury from smoking cigarettes, but the industry had successfully defended itself by using ...
... defense of the product.”14 Above all, it would supply witnesses. By the late 1970s, scores of lawsuits had been filed claiming personal injury from smoking cigarettes, but the industry had successfully defended itself by using ...
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... defenses, which in turn suggested that cancer might just be a (natural) failure of those defenses. Many of the studies explored other causes of disease—stress, genetic inheritance, and the like—an entirely legitimate topic, but one that ...
... defenses, which in turn suggested that cancer might just be a (natural) failure of those defenses. Many of the studies explored other causes of disease—stress, genetic inheritance, and the like—an entirely legitimate topic, but one that ...
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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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