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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... Seitz's role was to choose which projects to fund, to supervise and monitor the research, and to report progress to R. J. Reynolds. To determine the project criteria—what types of projects to fund—he enlisted the help of two other ...
... Seitz's role was to choose which projects to fund, to supervise and monitor the research, and to report progress to R. J. Reynolds. To determine the project criteria—what types of projects to fund—he enlisted the help of two other ...
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... Seitz to develop their criteria for judging proposals, they sought projects that took a different perspective from the mainstream, individuals with unusual or offbeat ideas, and young investigators in their “formative stages” who lacked ...
... Seitz to develop their criteria for judging proposals, they sought projects that took a different perspective from the mainstream, individuals with unusual or offbeat ideas, and young investigators in their “formative stages” who lacked ...
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... Seitz explained, could “take over in such a way that it over-produces its own species of protein and . . . destroys the cell,” in “the manner in which certain genes ... can be stimulated to over-produce cell division and lead to cancer ...
... Seitz explained, could “take over in such a way that it over-produces its own species of protein and . . . destroys the cell,” in “the manner in which certain genes ... can be stimulated to over-produce cell division and lead to cancer ...
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... Seitz—the balding man introduced to Reynolds executives in 1979—a former president of the Academy.87 Seitz was part of the generation of bright young men whose lives were transformed by the Manhattan Project, catapulted into positions ...
... Seitz—the balding man introduced to Reynolds executives in 1979—a former president of the Academy.87 Seitz was part of the generation of bright young men whose lives were transformed by the Manhattan Project, catapulted into positions ...
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... Seitz's credentials on their team, but why would Seitz want to work for R. J. Reynolds?88 Speaking to the industry executives in 1979, Seitz stressed the debt of gratitude he felt to Reynolds for the funding they had supplied his ...
... Seitz's credentials on their team, but why would Seitz want to work for R. J. Reynolds?88 Speaking to the industry executives in 1979, Seitz stressed the debt of gratitude he felt to Reynolds for the funding they had supplied his ...
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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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