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Merchants of Doubt

by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

  • FINISHED
  • Finished September 2021
  • First published 2010

climate history of science politics

Oreskes and Conway show that a small group of scientists worked to cast doubt on research about tobacco, acid rain and climate change.   They document how the same tactics and people recurred.