| Main Title |
Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / |
| Author |
Oreskes, Naomi,
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| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Press, |
| Year Published |
2011 |
| OCLC Number |
726157573 |
| ISBN |
9781608193943; 1608193942 |
| Subjects |
Scientists--Professional ethics ;
Science news--Moral and ethical aspects ;
Democracy and science ;
Tobacco Smoke Pollution ;
Global Warming
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EHAM |
Q147 .O74 2011 |
|
Region 1 Library/Boston,MA |
08/25/2014 |
| EOAM |
Q147.O74 2011 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
10/31/2016 |
| ESAM |
Q147.O74 2011 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
08/01/2011 |
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| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Collation |
355 pages ; 21 cm |
| Notes |
First published in [hardcover] 2010. "The book that inspired the film Merchants of Doubt"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-343) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
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. |
