Merchants of Doubt Audiobook by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
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Title: Merchants of Doubt Subtitle: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Author: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway Narrator: Peter Johnson Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 11-16-10 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 537 votes Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary: The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

Critic Reviews: Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have demonstrated what many of us have long suspected: that the debate over the climate crisis--and many other environmental issues--was manufactured by the same people who brought you safe cigarettes. Anyone concerned about the state of democracy in America should read this book. (Former Vice President Al Gore) Brilliantly reported and written with brutal clarity The real shocker of this book is that it takes us, in just 274 brisk pages, through seven scientific issues that called for decisive government regulation and didn't get it, sometimes for decades, because a few scientists sprinkled doubt-dust in the offices of regulators, politicians and journalists.Oreskes and Conway do a great public service. (Huffington Post) Merchants of Doubt might be one of the most important books of the year. Exhaustively researched and documented, it explains how over the past several decades mercenary scientists have partnered with tobacco companies and chemical corporations to help them convince the public that their products are safe even when solid science proves otherwiseMerchants of Doubt is a hefty read, well-researched and comprehensiveI hope it sells, because what it has to say needs to be heard. (Christian Science Monitor)

Members Reviews: Valuable scholarship, but not exactly literature The "Merchants of Doubt" of the title were a few scientists who had been productive researchers during the cold war. The book tells the story of how, in their later years, they used their accrued clout and credibility to attack and undermine important scientific discoveries involving tobacco, acid rain, ozone depletion, and especially, climate change. Their motives were both ideological (they considered environmental science a threat to the free market that they venerated) and mercenary (they were on the take from industry groups and conservative foundations). It's a really impressive piece or research and reporting, and it's easy to admire.