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.
By: Oreskes, Naomi
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Contributor(s): Conway, Erik M.
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TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, c2010Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.Description: 355 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781596916104 (hc.); 1596916109 (hc.).Subject(s): Scientists -- Professional ethics | Science news -- Moral and ethical aspects | Democracy and scienceDDC classification: 174/.95 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 174.95 Or347 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003713591 |
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.
"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.
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