| Portion of title |
How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming |
| 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 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. |
| Abstract |
"Merchants of Doubt " tells the 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. |
| General note | First published in [hardcover] 2010. |
| General note | "The book that inspired the film Merchants of Doubt". --- From cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-343) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781608193943 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1608193942 (pbk.) |
