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

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Michaels, David, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Industrial toxicology > United States.
Environmental health > United States.
Science and industry > United States.
Lobbying > United States.
Health risk assessment > United States.
Toxicologie industrielle > États-Unis.
Sciences et industrie > États-Unis.
Lobbying > États-Unis.
Risques pour la santé > Évaluation > États-Unis.
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
Environmental health.
Health risk assessment.
Industrial toxicology.
Lobbying.
Science and industry.
Environmental Pollution > adverse effects
Carcinogens > toxicity
Industry > standards
Liability, Legal
Lobbying
Public Policy
Toxicologie.
Risques sanitaires.
Pollution.
Santé publique.
Analyse des risques.
Cancer.
Production industrielle.
Recherche scientifique.
Groupements d'intérêt économique.
Responsabilité civile.
Umweltbelastung
Industrie
Lobbyismus
Umweltgift
Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchung
Wissenschaft
Einflussnahme
Industrie.
Umweltschutz.
Umweltgift.
Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung.
Wissenschaft.
Einflussnahme.
Toxikologi > Förenta staterna.
Miljöfarlig industri > Förenta staterna.
United States.
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
USA.
Internet Resources.
Popular Works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The manufacture of doubt
  • Workplace cancer before OSHA : waiting for the body count
  • America demands protection
  • Why our children are smarter than we are
  • The enronization of science
  • Tricks of the trade : how mercenary scientists mislead you
  • Defending secondhand smoke
  • Still waiting for the body count
  • Chrome-plated mischief
  • Popcorn lung : OSHA gives up
  • Defending the taxicab standard
  • The country has a drug problem
  • Daubert : the most influential Supreme Court ruling you've never heard of
  • The institutionalization of uncertainty
  • The Bush administration's political science
  • Making peace with the past
  • Four ways to make the courts count
  • Sarbanes-Oxley for science : a dozen ways to improve our regulatory system.

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