Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.

  • Oreskes, Naomi.
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[2010], ©2010
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New York ; London : Bloomsbury Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

355 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.

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 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.

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    Q147 2010O74m
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  • 9781596916104
  • 1596916109