Doubt is their product [[electronic resource] ] : how industry's assault on science threatens your health / / by David Michaels

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781818203321
• Autore: Michaels David <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-988525-7; 1-281-34239-4; 9786611342395; 0-19-971976-4; 1-4356-3356-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (726 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.9/02
• Soggetti: Industrial toxicology - United States; Environmental health - United States; Science and industry - United States; Lobbying - United States; Health risk assessment - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1 The Manufacture of Doubt; 2 Workplace Cancer before OSHA: Waiting for the Body Count; 3 America Demands Protection; 4 Why Our Children Are Smarter Than We Are; 5 The Enronization of Science; 6 Tricks of the Trade: How Mercenary Scientists Mislead You; 7 Defending Secondhand Smoke; 8 Still Waiting for the Body Count; 9 Chrome-Plated Mischief; 10 Popcorn Lung: OSHA Gives Up; 11 Defending the Taxicab Standard; 12 The Country Has a Drug Problem; 13 Daubert: The Most Influential Supreme Court Ruling You've Never Heard Of; 14 The Institutionalization of Uncertainty15 The Bush Administration's Political Science; 16 Making Peace with the Past; 17 Four Ways to Make the Courts Count; 18 Sarbanes-Oxley for Science: A Dozen Ways to Improve Our Regulatory System; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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 adva