Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
Oreskes, Naomi.; Conway, Erik M., 1965-
2010
Q147 .O74 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
Author Oreskes, Naomi.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9781596916104
1596916109
Imprint New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 355 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number Q147 .O74 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 174/.95
Summary "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 that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Conway, Erik M., 1965-
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Doubt is our product
Strategic defense, phony facts and the creation of the George C. Marshall Institute
Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain
Constructing a counternarrative : the fight over the ozone hole
What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over secondhand smoke
The denial of global warming
Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson
Conclusion : of free speech and free markets
Epilogue : a new view of science.

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