Book ID: CBB001023157

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010)

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Oreskes, Naomi (Author)
Conway, Erik M. (Author)


Bloomsbury Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 355 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Reviewed By

Review Armitage, Kevin (2011) Review of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". Environmental History (p. 546). unapi

Review Roll-Hansen, Nils (2011) Review of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 462). unapi

Review Anker, Peder (2011) Review of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 589). unapi

Review Hamlin, Christopher (2011) Review of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 287). unapi

Review Roberts, Peder (2012) Review of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". Technology and Culture (p. 245). unapi

Review Howe, Joshua P. (2012) Review of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming". Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (p. 244). unapi

Essay Review Yearley, Steven; Mercer, David; Pitman, Andy; Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik (2012) Perspectives on Global Warming. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 531-559). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Howe, Joshua P.
Cittadino, Eugene
Conley, Joe Greene, II
Conway, Erik M.
Doyle, Martin
Gottlieb, Robert
Journals
Environmental History
Social Studies of Science
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Washington Press
University of Arizona
Princeton University
Duke University
Gainesville University Press of Florida
University of California Press
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Science and politics
Controversies and disputes
Global warming
Climate and climatology
Science and law
People
Carson, Rachel Louise
Commoner, Barry
Keeling, Charles David
Nierenberg, William Aaron
Sears, Paul Bigelow
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Florida (U.S.)
Western states (U.S.)
Arctic regions
Institutions
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
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