Merchants of Doubt
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All Themes Science, Trust, and Public Policy Capitalism and the Environment Media Bias Certainty, Doubt, and the Scientific Method
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All Characters S. Fred Singer Frederick Seitz Benjamin Santer William Nierenberg Rachel Carson Roger Revelle Carl Sagan I. L. Baldwin Bert Bolin Martin J. Cline James E. Hansen Robert Jastrow Harold Johnston Gene E. Likens Steven J. Milloy Dixy Lee Ray Sherwood Rowland Thomas Schelling Edward Teller Ronald Reagan
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All Terms Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) DDT Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fairness Doctrine Free Market Fundamentalism George C. Marshall Institute Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Merchants of Doubt National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Nuclear Winter Peer Review President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) Science (Journal) Secondhand Smoke Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Supersonic Transport (SST) Tobacco Industry Research Committee
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Merchants of Doubt

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Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
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