Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408824832 (1408824833)
Publish date: June 1st 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 355
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Environment,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Social Science,
Skepticism,
Climate Change
I don't have much to add to the thousands of reviews already here. It's a fascinating book that helped me understand the origins of anti-scientism in America and how it's linked to ideology. It's true that the examples in the book highlight the way big business and anti-regulation conservatives have...
Meticulous and engaging. And enraging.
Incredible book. Fascinating and infuriating. Their bias is obvious, but since I share it, I don't really mind. I do think they let the mainstream scientists off a little too easily; they need to find a way to fight this kind of thing.