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Main Title

Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health /

Author

Michaels, David,

Publisher

Oxford University Press,

Year Published

2008

OCLC Number

86109941

ISBN

9780195300673; 019530067X

Subjects

Industrial toxicology--United States ; Environmental health--United States ; Science and industry--United States ; Lobbying--United States ; Health risk assessment--United States ; Environmental Pollution--adverse effects ; Carcinogens--toxicity ; Industry--standards ; Liability, Legal ; Public Policy ; Toxicologie ; Risques sanitaires ; Sante publique ; Analyse des risques ; Cancer ; Production industrielle ; Recherche scientifique ; Groupements d'interet conomique ; Responsabilite civile ; Etats-Unis d'Amerique ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltgift ; Umweltvertraglichkeitspreufung ; Wissenschaft ; Einflussnahme ; USA ; Umweltbelastung ; Lobbyismus ; Umweltvertraglichkeitsuntersuchung ; Toxikologi--Feorenta staterna ; Miljeofarlig industri--Feorenta staterna ; Umweltvertraglichkeitsuntersuchung--(DE-588)4490847-7 ; Einflussnahme--(DE-588)4131701-4 ; Lobbyismus--(DE-588)4036097-0 ; Umweltbelastung--(DE-588)4061619-8 ; Industrie--(DE-588)4026779-9 ; Umweltgift--(DE-588)4186801-8 ; Wissenschaft--(DE-588)4066562-8 ; USA--(DE-588)4078704-7 ; Environmental Pollution--adverse effects--United States ; Carcinogens--toxicity--United States ; Industry--standards--United States ; Liability, Legal--United States ; Public Policy--United States ; Umweltvertreaglichkeitspreufung ; Umweltvertreaglichkeitsuntersuchung

Internet Access

Description	Access URL
ebrary	http://site.ebrary.com/id/10215788

Holdings

Library	Call Number	Location	Last Modified
EIAM	RA1229.M53 2008	Region 2 Library/New York,NY	10/27/2010
EJDM	RA1229.M53 2008	Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD	08/03/2009
EKBM	RA1229.M53 2008	Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC	03/17/2009
ESAM	RA1229.M53 2008	Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA	12/07/2009

Collation

xii, 372 pages ; 25 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-356) and index.

Contents Notes

The manufacture of doubt -- Workplace cancer before OSHA : waiting for the body count -- America demands protection -- Why our children are smarter than we are -- The enronization of science -- Tricks of the trade : how mercenary scientists mislead you -- Defending secondhand smoke -- Still waiting for the body count -- Chrome-plated mischief -- Popcorn lung : OSHA gives up -- Defending the taxicab standard -- The country has a drug problem -- Daubert : the most influential Supreme Court ruling you've never heard of -- The institutionalization of uncertainty -- The Bush administration's political science -- Making peace with the past -- Four ways to make the courts count -- Sarbanes-Oxley for science : a dozen ways to improve our regulatory system. ""Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."" "In this expose, David Michaels reveals just how prevalent - and how effective - such strategies have become. He argues that to keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, secondhand smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials, industry executives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to dispute the scientific evidence that would alert the public to these dangers. Their goal is the manufacture of doubt."--Jacket.

Place Published

Oxford ; New York

PUB Date Free Form

2008

BIB Level

Cataloging Source

OCLC/T

LCCN

2007010959

Merged OCLC records

150362811; 1201937788

OCLC Time Stamp

20101020122005

Language

eng

Origin

OCLC

Type

CAT

OCLC Rec Leader

03895cam 22009014a 45020

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