Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Oreskes NaomiPaperback
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Oreskes NaomiPaperback Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al…
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Oreskes NaomiPaperback
Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al GoreFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeImportant and timely. This book tells, with "brutal clarity" (Huffington Post), 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. We ignore this message at our peril.--Elizabeth KolbertMerchants of Doubt has been praised--and attacked--around the world, for reasons easy to understand.
"Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco The same individuals who claim the science of global warming is "not settled" have also denied the truth about studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.