Merchants of Doubt
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What’s it about?
How a small group of Cold War scientists manufactured uncertainty about smoking, acid rain, ozone depletion, and climate change to protect corporate profits and free-market ideology.
You’ll learn
- Doubt is a manufactured product
- Same tactics used for tobacco and climate
- Media balance can distort science
- Unified science can defeat doubt