Merchants of Doubt
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming is a 2010 non-fiction book by American historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. It identifies parallels between the global warming controversy and earlier controversies over tobacco smoking, acid rain, DDT, and the hole in the ozone layer. Oreskes and Conway write that in each case "keeping the controversy alive" by spreading doubt and confusion after a scientific consensus had been reached was the basic strategy of those opposing action.
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See also
- Climate change controversy
- Climate change policy of the United States
- Climate Capitalism
- Fear, uncertainty and doubt
- Greenhouse Mafia
- Health effects of tobacco
- List of books about the politics of science
- List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming in contrast with Scientific opinion on climate change
- Manufactured controversy
- Media coverage of climate change
- Scientific consensus
- Tobacco control movement
- Tobacco politics
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