03554nam 2200709Ia 450 991082398380332120200520144314.00-19-988525-71-281-34239-497866113423950-19-971976-41-4356-3356-3(CKB)1000000000484889(EBL)737486(OCoLC)213450818(SSID)ssj0000141084(PQKBManifestationID)11130005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141084(PQKBWorkID)10054935(PQKB)11744013(Au-PeEL)EBL737486(CaPaEBR)ebr10215788(CaONFJC)MIL134239(MiAaPQ)EBC737486(OCoLC)1289519256(FINmELB)ELB167346(EXLCZ)99100000000048488920070314d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDoubt is their product how industry's assault on science threatens your health /by David Michaels1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (726 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-530067-X Includes bibliographical references.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 Of14 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""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 advaIndustrial toxicologyUnited StatesEnvironmental healthUnited StatesScience and industryUnited StatesLobbyingUnited StatesHealth risk assessmentUnited StatesIndustrial toxicologyEnvironmental healthScience and industryLobbyingHealth risk assessment615.9/02Michaels David1954-1602895MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823983803321Doubt is their product3927024UNINA