Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 355 pages ; 25 cm
"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.
Contents:
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 counter-narrative : the fight over the ozone hole -- What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over second-hand smoke -- The denial of global warming -- Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson -- Conclusion of free markets and free speech -- Epilogue : a new view of science.
Subjects:
Science news -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Democracy and science.
Scientists -- Professional ethics.
Science news -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Democracy and science.
Scientists -- Professional ethics.
ISBN:
9781596916104 (hc.)
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PHILOSOPHY Ethics Ore | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-343) and index.