Doubt is their product :: how industry's assault on science threatens your health /

"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...

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Main Author: Michaels, David, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 372 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199719761
0199719764
1281342394
9781435633568
9781281342393
1435633563

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