Trust us, we're experts!
Subtitle: how industry manipulates science and gambles with your future
By: Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Contributors: Stauber, John C. (John Clyde), 1953-
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781585420599
Subjects: Public relations firms; Consumer protection; Endorsements in advertising; Public relations; Corrupt practices; Milieubeleid; Public relations consultants; Industriële processen; Corruptie; Expertise; Deceptive advertising; Corporations; Business ethics; Industrial publicity; Risk perception
Description: "In Trust Us, We're Experts! journalists Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber unmask the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus reports, doctored data, and manufactured facts.

Rampton and Stauber show how corporations and public relations firms have seized upon remarkable new ways of exploiting your trust to get you to buy what they have to sell: letting you hear their pitch from a neutral third party, such as a professor or a pediatrician or a soccer mom or a watchdog group.".

"The problem is, these third parties are usually anything but neutral. They have been handpicked, cultivated, and meticulously packaged in order to make you believe what they say. In many cases, they have been paid handsomely for their "opinions.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: The age of illusion; title: The third man; title: The birth of spin; title: Deciding what you'll swallow; title: Risky business; title: Dying for a living; title: Packaging the beast; title: Preventing precaution; title: Attack of the killer potatoes; title: The expertise industry; title: The best science money can buy; title: The junkyard dogs; title: Global warming is good for you; title: Questioning authority.