Doubt is their product how industry's assault on science threatens your health / David Michaels.

Author/creator Michaels, David, 1954-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxii, 372 p. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
Industrial toxicology--United States.
Environmental health--United States.
Science and industry--United States.
Lobbying--United States.
Health risk assessment--United States.
Environmental Pollution--adverse effects. --United States.
Carcinogens--toxicity. --United States.
Industry--standards. --United States.
Liability, Legal--United States.
Lobbying--United States.
Public Policy--United States.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-356) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007010959
ISBN9780195300673 (alk. paper)
ISBN019530067X (alk. paper)

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