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Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
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The item Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Extent
- 355 pages
- Contents
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- Doubt is our product
- Strategic defense, phony facts and the creation of the George C. Marshall Institute
- Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain
- Constructing a counternarrative : the fight over the ozone hole
- What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over secondhand smoke
- The denial of global warming
- Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson
- Conclusion : of free speech and free markets
- Epilogue : a new view of science
- Isbn
- 9781596916104
- Label
- Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
- Title
- Merchants of doubt
- Title remainder
- how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
- Statement of responsibility
- Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Oreskes, Naomi
- Dewey number
- 174/.95
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q147
- LC item number
- .O74 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Conway, Erik M.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Scientists
- Science news
- Science journalism
- Democracy and science
- Label
- Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
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- Contents
- Doubt is our product -- Strategic defense, phony facts and the creation of the George C. Marshall Institute -- Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain -- Constructing a counternarrative : the fight over the ozone hole -- What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over secondhand smoke -- The denial of global warming -- Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson -- Conclusion : of free speech and free markets -- Epilogue : a new view of science
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Extent
- 355 pages
- Isbn
- 9781596916104
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 2009043183
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- ocn461631066
- (OCoLC)461631066
- Label
- Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Doubt is our product -- Strategic defense, phony facts and the creation of the George C. Marshall Institute -- Sowing the seeds of doubt : acid rain -- Constructing a counternarrative : the fight over the ozone hole -- What's bad science? Who decides? The fight over secondhand smoke -- The denial of global warming -- Denial rides again : the revisionist attack on Rachel Carson -- Conclusion : of free speech and free markets -- Epilogue : a new view of science
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Extent
- 355 pages
- Isbn
- 9781596916104
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 2009043183
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- ocn461631066
- (OCoLC)461631066
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