Title | Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik Conway |
Edition | First Edition |
Number of Pages | 355 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Press |
City | New York |
ISBN Number | 978-1-59691-610-4 |
Abstract | The book traces the history of tobacco industry protectionists, who lean on prestigious scientists of different areas of knowledge (physics, astronomy), who framed the debate of related risks of smoking tobacco as scientifically 'unproven'. |