Download Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming AudioBook Free
The U.S. methodical community has long led the earth in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues influencing quality of life. Our researchers have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at exactly the same time, a little yet powerful subset of the community leads the world in vehement denial of the dangers. Vendors of Uncertainty tells the story of what sort of loose-knit group of high-level researchers and methodical advisers, with profound links in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the general public and deny well-established methodical knowledge over four generations. Incredibly, the same individuals surface consistently some of the same characters who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not resolved" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung malignancy, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone opening. "Uncertainty is our product," composed one tobacco executive. These "experts" provided it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll again the rug upon this dark corner of the American methodical community, showing how ideology and corporate and business interests, aided with a too-compliant press, have skewed public understanding of a few of the most pressing issues in our era.
