Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change

by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Book Overview

Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."--Elizabeth Kolbert

Merchants of Doubt has been praised--and attacked--around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with "brutal clarity" (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608193942
• ISBN13: 9781608193943
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"