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Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 decis |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199719761 0199719764 1281342394 9781281342393 9781435633568 1435633563 019530067X 9780195300673 |