{"product_id":"merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handful-of-scientists-obscured-the-truth-on-issues-from-tobacco-smoke-to-climate-change-9781608193943","title":"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril.\"--Elizabeth Kolbert\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerchants of Doubt\u003c\/i\u003e has been praised--and attacked--around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with \"brutal clarity\" (\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), the disquieting 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. Merchants of Doubt rolls back the rug on this dark corner of American science. Now with a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore, and with a new Postscript by the authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi Oreskes \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. Her study \"Beyond the Ivory Tower,\" published in \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e in 2004, was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial and was cited by Al Gore in \u003ci\u003eAn Inconvenient Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books include \u003ci\u003eWhy Trust Science?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScience on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErik M. Conway \u003c\/b\u003ehas published five previous books, including \u003ci\u003eAtmospheric Science at NASA: A History \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e Merchants of Doubt \u003c\/i\u003ewas their first book together. In 2014, they published \u003ci\u003eThe Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, and they are currently working on \u003ci\u003eThe Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604213666066,"sku":"9781608193943","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b67e20e-6a25-4979-b227-28861f1ecbdb.jpg?v=1732257118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handful-of-scientists-obscured-the-truth-on-issues-from-tobacco-smoke-to-climate-change-9781608193943","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}