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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway

Published: 2011-05-24
Paperback : 368 pages
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"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert

"Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post

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"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert

"Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post

Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talked-about climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversialstory 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 scienceof 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.

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The book names key 'merchants of doubt', men who have misled the public over decades. Today there are new environmental threats and new merchants of doubt. Who are these people and what are they misleading us about?
by akela (see profile) 12/27/11

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  "Merchants of Doiuby"by Babette B. (see profile) 12/27/11

The book is an eye opener to the lengths to which corporations and government have gone over the last several decades to hide the potential harm various environmental threats pose to the public. From... (read more)

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