Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming

Publication Data

• Title Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
• Author Naomi Oreskes
• Contributor Erik M. Conway
• Publisher Bloomsbury Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

First published in hardback: 2010.

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 second-hand 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.

Topics

• Scientists :: Professional ethics
• Science news :: Moral and ethical aspects
• Democracy and science :: United States
• United States

Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming by Naomi Oreskes. ISBN 9781608193943. Published by Bloomsbury Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.