Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future.

• Author: Runyan, Curtis
• Position: New and Noteworthy

Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2001). Have you ever wondered how a handful of industry-paid scientists have been so effective at generating public skepticism about the work of hundreds of scientists supporting climate-change scenarios? Or why the sale of genetically modified foods was approved in the United States without any serious research on the long-term health and environmental risks? How about why the tobacco industry was able to get away with lying about the deadly nature of cigarettes for so long?

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