Doubt is Their Product

Author: David Michaels
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 019530067X
Category: Medical

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. Download Doubt is Their Product medical books for free.
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 decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand smoke, Get Doubt is Their Product our bestseller medical books.

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