
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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Liza Seneca
Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.
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.
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I’m sorry the impact of smoking on heart disease was only touched on tangentially. From my perspective that was the greatest social cost of smoking.
Thoughtful presentation of economic interests restraining public health advances.
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Urgency to act
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heroic
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I loved it, and have been recommending it to everyone, I really do think it’s a must-read.
Eye Opening Read
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Required reading for every informed citizen
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All I can say is we need revolt
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Careful historical history research demonstrating a pattern
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Exhausting...too long
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Not about events of the 21st century
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