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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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- Summary
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 355 p.
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781596916104
- Label
- Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
- Title
- Merchants of doubt
- Title remainder
- how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
- Statement of responsibility
- Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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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- 353788
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Oreskes, Naomi
- Dewey number
- 174.95
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- 1965-
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- Conway, Erik M.
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- True
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- Scientists
- Science news
- Democracy and science
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- how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references 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 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 355 p.
- Isbn
- 9781596916104
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009043183
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) a580090
- (OCoLC)461631066
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references 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 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 355 p.
- Isbn
- 9781596916104
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009043183
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) a580090
- (OCoLC)461631066
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