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The Triumph of Doubt - Dark Money and the Science of Deception (Paperback)
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The Triumph of Doubt - Dark Money and the Science of Deception (Paperback)
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Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake
in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty.
In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David
Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy - and
where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate
Change. America is a country of everyday crises - big,
long-spanning problems that persist despite their toll on the
country's health. And for every case of government inaction on one
of these issues, there is a set of familiar, doubtful refrains: The
science is unclear. The data are inconclusive. Regulation is
unjustified. It's a slippery slope. Is it? The Triumph of Doubt
traces the ascendance of science-for-hire in American life and
government, from its origins in the tobacco industry in the 1950s
to its current manifestations across government, public policy, and
even professional sports. Amid fraught conversations of
"alternative facts" and "truth decay," The Triumph of Doubt wields
its unprecedented access to shine a light on the machinations and
scope of manipulated science in American society. It is an urgent,
revelatory work, one that promises to reorient conversations around
science and the public good for the foreseeable future.
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