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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change - Paperback

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
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Availability:In StockContributor:Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. ConwayPublish date:2011-05-31Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781608193943ISBN-10:1608193942UPC:9781608193943Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, Environmental ScienceSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC8GG8FKMQ

Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."--Elizabeth Kolbert

Merchants of Doubt has been praised--and attacked--around the world, for reasons easy to understand. 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. 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. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Merchants of Doubt rolls back the rug on this dark corner of American science. Now with a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore, and with a new Postscript by the authors.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781608193943ISBN-10:1608193942UPC:9781608193943Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, Environmental ScienceSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC8GG8FKMQ

Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her study "Beyond the Ivory Tower," published in Science in 2004, was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial and was cited by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth. Her books include Why Trust Science? and Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean.
Erik M. Conway has published five previous books, including Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History and Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars. Merchants of Doubt was their first book together. In 2014, they published The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, and they are currently working on The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea.


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