TY - BOOK AU - Oreskes, Naomi. AU - Conway, Erik M., TI - Merchants of doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the tru th on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming SN - 9781596916104 (alk. paper) U1 - 174.95 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Press KW - Scientists KW - Professional ethics KW - Science news KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Democracy and science N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index; 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 ER -