Merchants of Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change

Name: Merchants of Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
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ISBN: 9781608193943

ISBN-10: 1608193942

ISBN-13: 9781608193943

Edition: 2011

Authors: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/26/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.57" wide x 8.26" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her essay "Beyond the Ivory Tower" was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial.



Introduction



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


Acknowledgments


Permissions


Notes


Index