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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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 |
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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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