Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming

"Merchants of Doubt " tells the controversial 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.The...

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Auteurs principaux : Oreskes Naomi (Auteur), Conway Erik M. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : 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
Publié : New York, Berlin, London : Bloomsbury Press , C 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (355 p.)
Contenu : 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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