LEADER 03488nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910781818203321 005 20230124182650.0 010 $a0-19-988525-7 010 $a1-281-34239-4 010 $a9786611342395 010 $a0-19-971976-4 010 $a1-4356-3356-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000484889 035 $a(EBL)737486 035 $a(OCoLC)213450818 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141084 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11130005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141084 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10054935 035 $a(PQKB)11744013 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL737486 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10215788 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL134239 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC737486 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000484889 100 $a20070314d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDoubt is their product$b[electronic resource] $ehow industry's assault on science threatens your health /$fby David Michaels 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (726 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-530067-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover 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 327 $a14 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 330 $a""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 606 $aIndustrial toxicology$zUnited States 606 $aEnvironmental health$zUnited States 606 $aScience and industry$zUnited States 606 $aLobbying$zUnited States 606 $aHealth risk assessment$zUnited States 615 0$aIndustrial toxicology 615 0$aEnvironmental health 615 0$aScience and industry 615 0$aLobbying 615 0$aHealth risk assessment 676 $a615.9/02 700 $aMichaels$b David$f1954-$01582374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781818203321 996 $aDoubt is their product$93864683 997 $aUNINA