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.
發表於2024-12-26
Merchants of Doubt 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這本書當時看的時候還沒有中文版,看的時候這個爽啊,微博上好多人都能對號入座,一群僞自由主義分子,天天嚷嚷著無政府主義,媒體也是傻逼,很容易就被操縱。現在已經齣中文版,英語不好的有福瞭。看完這本書可以扇原教旨主義市場自由派大嘴巴,自由市場是必要的,但不能像書...
評分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 ...
評分即使翻譯有時候沒有那麼順暢 乃至文中有幾處文字錯誤 乃至文中所說的如圖 的圖沒有 這本書還是很值得一讀。讓專業的人做專業的事,對事物抱有懷疑但是要注意度,不要淪為不可知論者,科學的圈子是人類科學的代錶,我們可以相信他們,但是科學人員也是有研究領域,是有專長的。...
評分這本書當時看的時候還沒有中文版,看的時候這個爽啊,微博上好多人都能對號入座,一群僞自由主義分子,天天嚷嚷著無政府主義,媒體也是傻逼,很容易就被操縱。現在已經齣中文版,英語不好的有福瞭。看完這本書可以扇原教旨主義市場自由派大嘴巴,自由市場是必要的,但不能像書...
評分這本書當時看的時候還沒有中文版,看的時候這個爽啊,微博上好多人都能對號入座,一群僞自由主義分子,天天嚷嚷著無政府主義,媒體也是傻逼,很容易就被操縱。現在已經齣中文版,英語不好的有福瞭。看完這本書可以扇原教旨主義市場自由派大嘴巴,自由市場是必要的,但不能像書...
圖書標籤: 科普 科學 美國 權力運作 政治 社會學 土摩托 英文
比恐怖小說還嚇人的真實故事。。。
評分Insightful points of how scientific understandings is no longer understood by the public when it no longer serves certain group's interests.
評分"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. "
評分看得讓人非常堵心的一本書。
評分It is not enough to get the numbers right.
Merchants of Doubt 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載