Doubt is Their Product

Doubt is Their Product
Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health  
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Author(s) David Michaels
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 2008
ISBN 0-19-530067-X

Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health is a 2008 book by David Michaels, published by Oxford University Press.

Michaels argues that for decades cigarette manufacturers knew that their product was hazardous to people's health, but they took necessary measures to protect their profits.[1] The industry and its scientists "manufactured uncertainty by questioning every study, dissecting every method, and disputing every conclusion".[1] In doing so the tobacco industry waged a campaign that "successfully delayed regulation and victim compensation for decades".[1]

Doubt Is Their Product has been reviewed in Science,[2] New Scientist,[3] and Chemical and Engineering News.[4]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Michaels, David (2008). Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford University Press. pp. 3–4. ISBN 0-19-530067-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=J0P3IdSYO_MC&lpg=PP1&dq=0-19-530067-X&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  2. ^ Carl F. Cranor (5 September 2008). "Public Health: The Tobacco Strategy Entrenched". Science 321 (5894): 1296–7. doi:10.1126/science.1162339. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/321/5894/1296. 
  3. ^ Merrill Goozner (11 June 2008). "Review: Doubt Is Their Product by David Michaels and Bending Science by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner". New Scientist (2660). http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826605.900-review-doubt-is-their-product-by-david-michaels-and-bending-science-by-thomas-o-mcgarity-and-wendy-e-wagner.html?full=true&print=true. 
  4. ^ Britt E. Erickson (November 17, 2008). "Manufacturing Uncertainty". Chemical and Engineering News 86 (42): 77–8. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/books/86/8646books.html. 

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