SUMMARY - Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.



*As you read this summary, you will discover how the industry and sometimes the U.S. Government have developed a strategy of doubt to prevent regulation contrary to their interests.



*You will also discover that : scientific activity is strongly supervised by permanent peer review; a handful of renowned scientists do not hesitate to manipulate the facts; the media's duty of impartiality is sometimes instrumentalized; we must not believe everything we are told!


*Science can represent a danger for industry when it points out the harm to the environment or human health caused by economic activity. Industrialists then react thanks to a strategy developed for decades, consisting in maintaining doubt about these risks thanks to the valuable assistance of certain recognized scientists. The book The Merchants of Doubt, written by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, analyses, with supporting documents, how several scientific truths were attacked and questioned to protect economic or political interests.



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