Merchants of Doubt

How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

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Merchants of Doubt

How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

1st U.S. ed.
  • 4.0 (3 ratings)
  • 75 Want to read
  • 6 Have read

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Language
English
Pages
355

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Book Details


Table of Contents

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 counter-narrative : the fight over the ozone hole
What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over second-hand smoke
The denial of global warming
Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson
Conclusion of free markets and free speech
Epilogue : a new view of science.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
174/.95
Library of Congress
Q147 .O74 2010, Q147 .O74 2010eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
355

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24574872M
Internet Archive
merchantsdoubtho00ores
ISBN 10
1596916109
ISBN 13
9781596916104
LCCN
2009043183
OCLC/WorldCat
461631066, 726880041
Wikidata
Q126162879

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15626798W

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