Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health, (Hardcover)

from geoffreymeadows

This book tells the life stories of various toxic substances and harmful products, from tobacco to beryllium, and how industry tried to divert the science that said the substance was harmful. It's a story not only of corporate guilt and greed, but also of the weakness of our governmental institut...

from geoffreymeadows

This book tells the life stories of various toxic substances and harmful products, from tobacco to beryllium, and how industry tried to divert the science that said the substance was harmful. It's a story not only of corporate guilt and greed, but also of the weakness of our governmental institut...

from JanesList

Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health David Michaels, 2008 This heavily documented but readable book discusses the ways in which industry fights against health, safety, and environmental regulations. I would like to encourage more people to read this, esp...

from jorgearanda

I am with Michaels in his fight to regulate toxic and hazardous substances, and I am angry (but not surprised) at the cynical, reckless industrial behaviour that he documents so thoroughly in his book. But "Doubt is Their Product" has two large problems, as a book: first, it often gets lost in th...

from jorgearanda

I am with Michaels in his fight to regulate toxic and hazardous substances, and I am angry (but not surprised) at the cynical, reckless industrial behaviour that he documents so thoroughly in his book. But "Doubt is Their Product" has two large problems, as a book: first, it often gets lost in th...