Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the tru th on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / Naomi Oreskes an d Erik M. Conway.

By:

Oreskes, Naomi

Contributor(s):

Conway, Erik M, 1965-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 355 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781596916104 (alk. paper)
1596916109 (alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

174.95

Contents:

Doubt is our product -- Strategic defense, phony facts and the creat ion of the George C. Marshall Institute -- Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain -- Constructing a counter-narrative : the fight over the ozon e hole -- What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over second-hand s moke -- The denial of global warming -- Denial rides again : the revisi onist attack on Rachel Carson -- Conclusion of free markets and free sp eech -- Epilogue : a new view of science.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.

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