- Moral and ethical aspects, Science news, Democracy and science, Scientists
"Merchants of Doubt " tells the 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 that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury, Edizioni Ambiente
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781596916104
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