Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes

Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril.-Elizabeth Kolbert

Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity.-Huffington Post

Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed director of Food Inc., Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talked-about climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversial 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. The same individuals who claim the science of global warming is not settled have also denied the truth about studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. Doubt is our product, wrote one tobacco executive. These experts supplied it.

Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her books include The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future and Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Twitter @NaomiOreskes

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ISBN 13	9781596916104
ISBN 10	1596916109
Title	Merchants of Doubt
Author	Naomi Oreskes
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Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2010-05-25
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2010
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