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



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Autore: Michaels David <1954-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health / / by David Michaels Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (726 p.)
Disciplina: 615.9/02
Soggetto topico: Industrial toxicology - United States
Environmental health - United States
Science and industry - United States
Lobbying - United States
Health risk assessment - United States
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
Titolo autorizzato: Doubt is their product  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-988525-7
1-281-34239-4
9786611342395
0-19-971976-4
1-4356-3356-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823983803321
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