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. |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 55.
Strana
... increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. —Lyndon Johnson Special Message to Congress, 1965 The trouble with Americans is that they haven't read the minutes of the previous meeting. —Adlai Stevenson Contents ...
... increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. —Lyndon Johnson Special Message to Congress, 1965 The trouble with Americans is that they haven't read the minutes of the previous meeting. —Adlai Stevenson Contents ...
Strana 2
... it was created in response to early warnings about global warming. Scientists had known for a long time that increased greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels could cause climate change—they had explained 2 Merchants of Doubt.
... it was created in response to early warnings about global warming. Scientists had known for a long time that increased greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels could cause climate change—they had explained 2 Merchants of Doubt.
Strana 18
... increase in cancer simply due to longer life expectancy and improved accuracy in diagnosis?40 None of the questions was illegitimate, but they were all disingenuous, because the answers were known: Cancer rates vary between cities and ...
... increase in cancer simply due to longer life expectancy and improved accuracy in diagnosis?40 None of the questions was illegitimate, but they were all disingenuous, because the answers were known: Cancer rates vary between cities and ...
Strana 21
... increased incidence of lung cancer.”55 In 1959, leading researchers had declared in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that the evidence linking cigarettes and cancer was “beyond dispute.”56 That same year, the American Cancer ...
... increased incidence of lung cancer.”55 In 1959, leading researchers had declared in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that the evidence linking cigarettes and cancer was “beyond dispute.”56 That same year, the American Cancer ...
Strana 27
... increasing social and intellectual isolation by blaming others. American science had become “rigid,” he insisted, his colleagues dogmatic and closed-minded. The growing competition for federal funds stifled creativity, and discouraged ...
... increasing social and intellectual isolation by blaming others. American science had become “rigid,” he insisted, his colleagues dogmatic and closed-minded. The growing competition for federal funds stifled creativity, and discouraged ...
Obsah
1 | |
36 | |
Acid Rain | 66 |
Whats Bad Science? Who Decides? | 136 |
The Denial of Global Warming | 169 |
The Revisionist | 216 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
Index | 345 |
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
acid rain American argued argument Assessment Atmospheric attack Bad Science Bill Nierenberg Carbon Dioxide cause CFCs chapter chlorine Cigarette claims Climate Change colleagues Committee debate defense Earth’s effects emissions Environment Environmental environmentalists experts Fred Singer Frederick Seitz free market George H. W. Bush Glantz global warming Health Heartland Institute human Ibid impact insisted IPCC issue Legacy Tobacco Documents letter Lomborg lung cancer Marshall Institute ment Naomi Oreskes National Academy nuclear winter ozone depletion ozone hole panel percent pesticides Philip Morris physicists Policy political pollution president President’s problem Protection published R. J. Reynolds Reagan regulation Revelle risk Robert Jastrow Santer scientists secondhand smoke Silent Spring SIO Archives skeptics Soviet stratosphere tion Tobacco Documents Library tobacco industry U.S. Government University Press Wall Street Journal WAN papers Washington White House William Nierenberg World York