Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
- Oreskes, Naomi.
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
- Books
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Publication/Creation
New York ; London : Bloomsbury Press, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
355 pages ; 25 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index.
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.
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Location Status Medical CollectionQ147 2010O74mOpen shelves
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- 9781596916104
- 1596916109