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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... United States to leadership in biomedical research. Yet, for all this, Shannon never won a Nobel Prize, a National Medal of Science, or even a Lasker Award—often said to be biology's next best thing to the Nobel Prize. Maclyn McCarty ...
... United States to leadership in biomedical research. Yet, for all this, Shannon never won a Nobel Prize, a National Medal of Science, or even a Lasker Award—often said to be biology's next best thing to the Nobel Prize. Maclyn McCarty ...
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... United States and abroad—taxes that had been raised in part in response to the scientific evidence of its harms.) But the principal goal, stressed by Stokes to his advisory board that day in May and repeated in scores of industry ...
... United States and abroad—taxes that had been raised in part in response to the scientific evidence of its harms.) But the principal goal, stressed by Stokes to his advisory board that day in May and repeated in scores of industry ...
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... United States? Does climate affect cancer? Do the casings placed on American cigarettes (but not British ones) somehow serve as an antidote to the deleterious effect of tobacco? How much is the increase in cancer simply due to longer ...
... United States? Does climate affect cancer? Do the casings placed on American cigarettes (but not British ones) somehow serve as an antidote to the deleterious effect of tobacco? How much is the increase in cancer simply due to longer ...
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... United States. Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA's medical school, he had created the world's first transgenic organism: a genetically modified mouse. In 1980, however, he was censured by UCLA and the National ...
... United States. Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA's medical school, he had created the world's first transgenic organism: a genetically modified mouse. In 1980, however, he was censured by UCLA and the National ...
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... United States could “win” a nuclear war. Seitz's hawkish politics had deep roots. Like nearly every American physicist of his generation, he grew up alongside the nuclear weapons programs, watching the national security state build his ...
... United States could “win” a nuclear war. Seitz's hawkish politics had deep roots. Like nearly every American physicist of his generation, he grew up alongside the nuclear weapons programs, watching the national security state build 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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