1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00091238

Autore

Academia Litterarum Borussica

Titolo

Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum / Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae et Societatis Litterarum Regiae Saxonicae ; editit Carolus Pauli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ed. anastatica

Descrizione fisica

Roma : L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1964-.   v. ; 34 cm

Classificazione

D

Soggetti

ISCRIZIONI ETRUSCHE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164971903321

Titolo

Summary : Merchants of Doubt / / BusinessNews Publishing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : CapitolReader, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

2-511-00125-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Disciplina

634.9

Soggetti

Scientists - Professional ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title page -- Book Presentation -- Book Abstract -- About the Author -- Important Note About This Ebook -- Summary of Merchants of Doubt (Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway) -- The Big Six -- Tobacco Causes Cancer -- Star Wars - Applying the Tobacco Strategy to the Strategic Defense Initiative -- Acid Rain and the Ozone Hole - Applying



the Tobacco Strategy in New Contexts -- Secondhand Smoke - Bad Science or Even Worse Politics? -- Global Warming - Scientific Fact or Scientific Trojan Horse? -- Conclusion -- Buy the Book -- About the Summary Publisher -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway in their book "Merchant of Doubt, How a Handful of scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway book.Oreskes and Conway argue that science must wait until empirical proof emerges to draw conclusions. Hence they say that the best way to discredit science regarding the climate chang