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发表于2025-01-22
Merchants of Doubt pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda. The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. "Merchants of Doubt "tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly--some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
It is not enough to get the numbers right.
评分Insightful points of how scientific understandings is no longer understood by the public when it no longer serves certain group's interests.
评分"Scientists have no special purchase on moral or ethical decisions; a climate scientist is no more qualified to comment on health care reform than a physicist is to judge the causes of bee colony collapse. "
评分It is not enough to get the numbers right.
评分Insightful points of how scientific understandings is no longer understood by the public when it no longer serves certain group's interests.
本书讲的是美国科学家的败类如何在一些科学问题上出于种种目的胡搅蛮缠影响公众判断、影响政府决策的故事。这些科学上的问题目前看科学界已经没有争议,公众也已经基本没有怀疑了:吸烟有害健康、星球大战计划根本不能有效防御核战争、酸雨对全人类有害、臭氧空洞对全人类有害...
评分The point that impresses me most is “Doubt is crucial to science—in the version we call curiosity or healthy skepticism, it drives science forward—but it also makes science vulnerable to misinterpretation, because it is easy to take uncertainties out of ...
评分The point that impresses me most is “Doubt is crucial to science—in the version we call curiosity or healthy skepticism, it drives science forward—but it also makes science vulnerable to misinterpretation, because it is easy to take uncertainties out of ...
评分本书讲的是美国科学家的败类如何在一些科学问题上出于种种目的胡搅蛮缠影响公众判断、影响政府决策的故事。这些科学上的问题目前看科学界已经没有争议,公众也已经基本没有怀疑了:吸烟有害健康、星球大战计划根本不能有效防御核战争、酸雨对全人类有害、臭氧空洞对全人类有害...
评分本书讲的是美国科学家的败类如何在一些科学问题上出于种种目的胡搅蛮缠影响公众判断、影响政府决策的故事。这些科学上的问题目前看科学界已经没有争议,公众也已经基本没有怀疑了:吸烟有害健康、星球大战计划根本不能有效防御核战争、酸雨对全人类有害、臭氧空洞对全人类有害...
Merchants of Doubt pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025