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.
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.