Merchants of Doubt
Subtitle: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781608193943
Subjects: Scientists; Science news
Description: "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.