Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

What the summary covers

1. Introduction: Sound Science or Sounds Like Science?1 min
2. 1. The Manufacture of Doubt1 min
3. 2. Workplace Cancer before OSHA2 min
4. 3. America Demands Protection1 min
5. 4. Why Our Children Are Smarter Than We Are1 min
6. 5. The Enronization of Science2 min
7. 6. Tricks of the Trade2 min
8. 7. Defending Secondhand Smoke2 min
9. 8. Still Waiting for the Body Count1 min
10. 9. Chrome Plated Mischief2 min
11. 10. Popcorn Lung2 min
12. 11. Defending the Taxicab Standard2 min
13. 12. The Country Has a Drug Problem2 min
14. 13. Daubert1 min
15. 14. The Institutionalization of Uncertainty1 min
16. 15. The Bush Administration's Political Science2 min
17. 16. Making Peace with the Past2 min
18. 17. Four Ways to Make the Courts Count2 min
19. 18. Sarbanes Oxley for Science2 min

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