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

A well informed and useful book spoiled by the writers' inability to suppress their own prejudices—like something out of the Guardian newspaper

A compelling and disturbing read, authoritatively exposing those in the US who seek to obscure environmental science and deceive the public on issues from cigarette smoke to climate change, and how they now seek to reverse half a century of environmental protection. If you have wondered why the media and public opinion have lagged so far behind our understanding of climate change, here is an essential account of how this has taken place. And if you are keen that governments now start to act on the basis of science, you must read this book.

Well written, fascinating book - amazing to see how just a few of the same people have been behind all of this...

Simply brilliant, well researched and a lesson on how think tanks, big business and even some scientists undermine human safety, human rights and ecological disaster

A very good book about how certain scientists with conflicting interests have deliberately obfuscated the truth about various issues, ranging from tobacco smoke to global warming.The author is a Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The co-author is is a historian at the California Institute of Technology.