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Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health

Title
Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health / David Michaels.
Author
Michaels, David, 1954-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description
xii, 372 pages; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-356) and index.
Contents
The manufacture of doubt -- Workplace cancer before OSHA : waiting for the body count -- America demands protection -- Why our children are smarter than we are -- The enronization of science -- Tricks of the trade : how mercenary scientists mislead you -- Defending secondhand smoke -- Still waiting for the body count -- Chrome-plated mischief -- Popcorn lung : OSHA gives up -- Defending the taxicab standard -- The country has a drug problem -- Daubert : the most influential Supreme Court ruling you've never heard of -- The institutionalization of uncertainty -- The Bush administration's political science -- Making peace with the past -- Four ways to make the courts count -- Sarbanes-Oxley for science : a dozen ways to improve our regulatory system.
ISBN
  • 9780195300673 (alk. paper)
  • 019530067X (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2007010959
  • 40015439485
OCLC
  • ocm86109941\
  • 86109941
  • SCSB-5409426
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries