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"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.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Naomi Oreskes
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781408824665
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