Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health /
Michaels, David, 1954-
Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health / David Michaels. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xii, 372 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-356) and index.
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.
9780195300673 (alk. paper) 019530067X (alk. paper)
2007010959
101301970 DNLM
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.
RA1229 / .M53 2008
615.9/02
WA 670 / M621d 2008
Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health / David Michaels. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xii, 372 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-356) and index.
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.
9780195300673 (alk. paper) 019530067X (alk. paper)
2007010959
101301970 DNLM
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.
RA1229 / .M53 2008
615.9/02
WA 670 / M621d 2008