Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
Oreskes, Naomi.
Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. - 1st U.S. ed. - 355 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.
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.
"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.
9781596916104 (hc.) 1596916109 (hc.)
2009043183
GBB073286 bnb
015578552 Uk
Scientists--Professional ethics.
Science news--Moral and ethical aspects.
Democracy and science.
Q147 / .O74 2010
Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. - 1st U.S. ed. - 355 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.
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.
"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.
9781596916104 (hc.) 1596916109 (hc.)
2009043183
GBB073286 bnb
015578552 Uk
Scientists--Professional ethics.
Science news--Moral and ethical aspects.
Democracy and science.
Q147 / .O74 2010