Doubt is their product: how industry's assault on science threatens your health
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1. Verfasser: Michaels, David (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decis
1 The Manufacture of Doubt; 2 Workplace Cancer before OSHA: Waiting for the Body Count; 3 America Demands Protection; 4 Why Our Children Are Smarter Than We Are; 5 The Enronization of Science; 6 Tricks of the Trade: How Mercenary Scientists Mislead You; 7 Defending Secondhand Smoke; 8 Still Waiting for the Body Count; 9 Chrome-Plated Mischief; 10 Popcorn Lung: OSHA Gives Up; 11 Defending the Taxicab Standard; 12 The Country Has a Drug Problem; 13 Daubert: The Most Influential Supreme Court Ruling You've Never Heard Of
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
ISBN:0199719764
1281342394
1435633563
9780195300673
9780199719761
9781281342393
9781435633568

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