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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Oreskes, Naomi.     Subjects     Scientists -- Professional ethics.     Science news -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Democracy and science.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Oreskes, Naomi.       by title:      Merchants of doubt :...         MARC Display

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. by Oreskes, Naomi. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010. Subjects Scientists -- Professional ethics.   Science news -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Democracy and science. ISBN:  9781596916104 (hc.) : 1596916109 (hc.) Description:  355 p. ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st U.S. ed. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 174.95 Or Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 174.95 Oreskes Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 174.95 Or Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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