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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The tobacco companies deliberately misled the public about smoking’s serious health dangers.
Chapter 3: The tobacco industry kept pushing a campaign to sow doubt about secondhand smoke’s harms, and about the credibility of science itself.
Chapter 4: The scientific debate over nuclear weapons was deliberately prolonged.
Chapter 5: The US government undercut scientific findings on acid rain during the 1970s.
Chapter 6: Debate over the ozone layer’s hole persisted well into the 1990s.
Chapter 7: Evidence proving global warming faced an uphill public fight for recognition in the 1980s.
Chapter 8: In the early 2000s, a long-dormant pesticide debate was revived as a poster-child attack on environmental regulations.
Description
Merchants of Doubt (2011) examines some of the world’s major scientific debates on topics including the environment, smoking and nuclear weapons. These blinks will explain how a handful of extremely vocal scientists have heavily misrepresented these issues through the mainstream media, often with the goal of aiding corporate and industry interests.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in politics, the media and public opinion
- Journalists, activists and anyone with a social conscience