Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global WarmingBloomsbury Publishing USA, 03.06.2010 - 368 Seiten The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. 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. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era. |
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... Committee for Public Information to supply a “positive” and “entirely 'pro-cigarette'” message to counter the anti-cigarette scientific one. As the U.S. Department of Justice would later put it, they decided “to deceive the American ...
... Committee for Public Information to supply a “positive” and “entirely 'pro-cigarette'” message to counter the anti-cigarette scientific one. As the U.S. Department of Justice would later put it, they decided “to deceive the American ...
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... committee, because a pro-cigarette message would need science to back it up.29 At the end of the day, Hill concluded, “scientific doubts must remain.”30 It would be his job to ensure it. Over the next half century, the industry did what ...
... committee, because a pro-cigarette message would need science to back it up.29 At the end of the day, Hill concluded, “scientific doubts must remain.”30 It would be his job to ensure it. Over the next half century, the industry did what ...
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... Committee and spearhead the effort to foster the impression of debate, primarily by promoting the work of scientists whose views might be useful to the industry. One of these scientists was Wilhelm C. Hueper, chief of the Environmental ...
... Committee and spearhead the effort to foster the impression of debate, primarily by promoting the work of scientists whose views might be useful to the industry. One of these scientists was Wilhelm C. Hueper, chief of the Environmental ...
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... committee prepared a booklet, A Scientific Perspective on the Cigarette Controversy, which was sent to 176,800 American doctors.37 Fifteen thousand additional copies were sent to editors, reporters, columnists, and members of Congress ...
... committee prepared a booklet, A Scientific Perspective on the Cigarette Controversy, which was sent to 176,800 American doctors.37 Fifteen thousand additional copies were sent to editors, reporters, columnists, and members of Congress ...
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... Committee will support.45 Balance. Cold objectivity. These were Murrow's trademarks—along with his dangling cigarette—and the tobacco industry exploited them both. Murrow's later death from lung cancer was both tragic and ironic, for ...
... Committee will support.45 Balance. Cold objectivity. These were Murrow's trademarks—along with his dangling cigarette—and the tobacco industry exploited them both. Murrow's later death from lung cancer was both tragic and ironic, for ...
Inhalt
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36 | |
Acid Rain | 66 |
Whats Bad Science? Who Decides? | 136 |
The Denial of Global Warming | 169 |
The Revisionist | 216 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
Index | 345 |
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