TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oreskes,Naomi
AU  - Conway,Erik M.
TI  - Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
SN  - 9781596916104 (hc.)
AV  - Q147 .O74 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Press
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Professional ethics
KW  - Science news
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Democracy and science
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -