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  title info:
    title: Merchants of doubt
    sub title: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
  name:
    name part: Oreskes, Naomi.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Conway, Erik M.
    name part: 1965-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Nonfiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st U.S. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 355 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: This book has been praised- and attacked- around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with 'brutal clarity', the disquieting 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. It is the troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda. The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly, some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. The authors, both historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era. -- from Back Cover.
  table of 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 -- Of free markets and free speech -- A new view of science.
  note: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-343) and index.
  note: History of Science Society, Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize Winner, 2011.
  subject:
    topic: Scientists
    topic: Professional ethics
  subject:
    topic: Science news
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Democracy and science
  subject:
    topic: Tobacco smoke pollution
  subject:
    topic: Passive smoking
  subject:
    topic: Global warming
  subject:
    topic: Tobacco Smoke Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Global Warming
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Vulgarisation
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Démocratie et sciences
  subject:
    topic: Tabagisme passif
  subject:
    topic: Réchauffement de la Terre
  subject:
    topic: global warming
  subject:
    topic: Recherche
  subject:
    topic: Scientifiques
  subject:
    topic: Déontologie professionnelle
  subject:
    topic: Démocratie
  subject:
    topic: Tobacco smoke pollution
  subject:
    topic: Passive smoking
  subject:
    topic: Global warming
  subject:
    topic: Democracy and science
  subject:
    topic: Scientists
    topic: Professional ethics
  subject:
    topic: Exocet
  subject:
    topic: Berufsethik
  subject:
    topic: Fehlinformation
  subject:
    topic: Wissenschaft
  subject:
    topic: Forskare
    topic: yrkesetik
  subject:
    topic: Vetenskap och politik
  subject:
    topic: Forskningspolitik
    geographic: Förenta staterna
  classification: Q147 .O74 2010
  classification: 174/.95
  classification: 174.95 O66m
  classification: 174.95
  identifier: 9781596916104
  identifier: 1596916109
  identifier: 9781408824832
  identifier: 1408824833
  identifier: 9781608193943
  identifier: 1608193942
  identifier: 2009043183
  identifier: St Martins Pr, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy Us Hwy 15, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (212)6745151
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 091028
    record change date: 20240807190607.7
    record identifier: in00004810943
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng