Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
by Naomi Oreskes
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“@TomLumForest @mattmcirvin @ring_ras @DouglasCP @NaomiOreskes It actually goes back even further. Naomi's book is a mustread, but also worth reading @ChrisCMooney's "The Republican War on Science" for a longerterm contextualization of modernday industryfunded science denial. | Highly recommend this book | Worth reading Merchants of Doubt. Same who tried to deny smoking deaths are denying climate change.”
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Climate Change, Books Recommended by Elon Musk, and Most Recommended Books.
Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed director of Food Inc., Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talkedabout climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversial story of how a looseknit group of highlevel scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ra...
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“@TomLumForest @mattmcirvin @ring_ras @DouglasCP @NaomiOreskes It actually goes back even further. Naomi's book is a mustread, but also worth reading @ChrisCMooney's "The Republican War on Science" for a longerterm contextualization of modernday industryfunded science denial. | Highly recommend this book | Worth reading Merchants of Doubt. Same who tried to deny smoking deaths are denying climate change.”
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