Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2008-04-23
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 019530067X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Doubt is Their Product pdf
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"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."
In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials, industry executives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to dispute scientific evidence about health risks. In doing so, they have not only delayed action on specific hazards, Download Doubt is Their Product for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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