Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
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Beteilige Person: Oreskes, Naomi 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London, New York, Berlin, Sydney Bloomsbury Publishing Plc [2011]
Ausgabe:First published in Great Britain in 2011
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Abstract:The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Doubt Is Our Product -- Chapter 2. Strategic Defense, Phony Facts, and the Creation of the George C. Marshall Institute -- Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Doubt: Acid Rain -- Chapter 4. Constructing a Counternarrative: The Fight over the Ozone Hole -- Chapter 5. What's Bad Science? Who Decides? The Fight over Secondhand Smoke -- Chapter 6. The Denial of Global Warming -- Chapter 7. Denial Rides Again: The Revisionist Attack on Rachel Carson -- Conclusion: Of Free Speech and Free Markets -- Epilogue: A New View of Science -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Notes -- A Note on the Authors -- Imprint
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (301 Seiten)
ISBN:9781408828779