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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... evidence and spread confusion on many of the most important issues of our time. It is a story about a pattern that continues today. A story about fighting facts, and merchandising doubt. CHAPTER 1 Doubt Is Our Product O n May 9 ...
... evidence and spread confusion on many of the most important issues of our time. It is a story about a pattern that continues today. A story about fighting facts, and merchandising doubt. CHAPTER 1 Doubt Is Our Product O n May 9 ...
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... evidence that tobacco killed people. Tobacco caused cancer: that was a fact, and the industry knew it. So they looked for some way to deflect attention from it. Indeed, they had known it since the early 1950s, when the industry first ...
... evidence that tobacco killed people. Tobacco caused cancer: that was a fact, and the industry knew it. So they looked for some way to deflect attention from it. Indeed, they had known it since the early 1950s, when the industry first ...
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... evidence of the harms of tobacco. They funded alternative research to cast doubt on the tobacco-cancer link.31 They conducted polls to gauge public opinion and used the results to guide campaigns to sway it. They distributed pamphlets ...
... evidence of the harms of tobacco. They funded alternative research to cast doubt on the tobacco-cancer link.31 They conducted polls to gauge public opinion and used the results to guide campaigns to sway it. They distributed pamphlets ...
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... evidence was rapidly accumulating, a clear picture was coming into focus, and the trajectory of knowledge was clearly against tobacco's safety.44 Balance was interpreted, it seems, as giving equal weight to both sides, rather than ...
... evidence was rapidly accumulating, a clear picture was coming into focus, and the trajectory of knowledge was clearly against tobacco's safety.44 Balance was interpreted, it seems, as giving equal weight to both sides, rather than ...
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... panel were smokers, and by the time their report was ready, most of them had quit.54 For those close to the science, this was no surprise, because the evidence against smoking had been steadily mounting. In 1957, 20 Merchants of Doubt.
... panel were smokers, and by the time their report was ready, most of them had quit.54 For those close to the science, this was no surprise, because the evidence against smoking had been steadily mounting. In 1957, 20 Merchants of Doubt.
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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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