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Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda
eBook, English, 2012
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, 2012
1 online resource (301 pages)
9781408828779, 1408828774
1020691166
Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Doubt Is Our Product; Chapter 2. Strategic Defense, Phony Facts, and the Creation of the George C. Marshall Institute; Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Doubt: Acid Rain; Chapter 4. Constructing a Counternarrative: The Fight over the Ozone Hole; Chapter 5. Whatâ#x80;#x99;s Bad Science? Who Decides? The Fight over Secondhand Smoke; Chapter 6. The Denial of Global Warming; Chapter 7. Denial Rides Again: The Revisionist Attack on Rachel Carson; Conclusion: Of Free Speech and Free Markets; Epilogue: A New View of Science AcknowledgmentsPermissions; Notes; A Note on the Authors; Imprint
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