Doubt Is Their Product How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

Name: Doubt Is Their Product How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
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ISBN: 9780195300673

ISBN-10: 019530067X

ISBN-13: 9780195300673

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Michaels

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"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 eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the…

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List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/23/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 9.49" wide x 6.46" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction: "Sound Science" or "Sounds Like Science"?



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


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations and Acronyms


References


Index