Merchants of doubt
Subtitle: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
By: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
Contributors: Conway, Erik M., 1965-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781596916104
Subjects: Scientists -- Professional ethics; Science news -- Moral and ethical aspects; Democracy and science
Description: The authors minutely document the legislative history of how lobbyist from the tobacco industry and corroborating scientist persisted in obfuscating the harmful effects of smoking by simply purporting that the traditional science on the matter was flawed and overwrought. This strategy became a blueprint for other industries that were being scrutinized for their negative consumer health or environmental impact.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Doubt is our product; title: Strategic defense, phony facts and the creation of the George C. Marshall Institute; title: Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain; title: Constructing a counter-narrative : the fight over the ozone hole; title: What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over second-hand smoke; title: The denial of global warming; title: Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson; title: Conclusion of free markets and free speech; title: Epilogue : a new view of science.