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  Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Paperback) By (author) Naomi Oreskes, By (author) Erik M Conway

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  Short Description for Merchants of Doubt"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post"Merchants of Doubt" was one of the most talked-about climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversia...
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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Published: 24 May 2011
  • Format: Paperback 355 pages
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  • Categories: Philosophy Of Science
  • ISBN 13: 9781608193943 ISBN 10: 1608193942
  • Sales rank: 6,413

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  A Must Read in Understanding Bias in ScienceBook rating: 5

  A good historical narrative of the science and junk science surrounding the last century's most divisive science. The book explores the controversy around smoking, ozone, CFCs and climate change. The book is a pretty easy read and has a very extensive bibliography so you can read the original sources. They do a good job of not jumping to conclusions when judging the scientists responsible for most of the junk science and seek to understand why good and intelligent people do so much harm. by Bernie

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• Heavy but interestingBook rating: 4

  This is a pretty full on read about some of the 'debunking' of science that has been going on over the decades - the fabrication of 'debates'.
  It offers some reasons as to why people would bother arguing against agreed science.
  I sometimes wondered if the authors didn't do quite a good enough job of reigning in their own bias, but overall, an interesting read - although its taken me a long time! by Freya

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