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Merchants of doubt

Book • 2010

In 'Merchants of Doubt', historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway expose how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

The book highlights how the same individuals repeatedly denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole, all while promoting an ideology of free market fundamentalism aided by a compliant media.

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Mentioned in 23 episodes

Mentioned by

Tristan Harris

and

Daniel Barcay

as books revealing how doubt has been used across industries.

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Weaponizing Uncertainty: How Tech is Recycling Big Tobacco’s Playbook

Mentioned by

Chris Field

when discussing the history of climate change skepticism.

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#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change

Mentioned by

Michael Lewis

as co-authors of "Merchants of Doubt", discussing the use of bad science by predatory industries.

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Episode 9: Framing the Gambler

Mentioned by

Robert Proctor

as a book about the creation of doubt.

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Agnotology (WILLFUL IGNORANCE) Updated Encore with Dr. Robert Proctor

Mentioned by

Naomi Oreskes

as her co-author on several books, including 'Merchants of Doubt' and 'The Big Myth'.

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Lifting the Curtain on Climate Denial — Naomi Oreskes — Cleaning Up Redux

Mentioned by

Clara Collier

during a discussion about politically motivated attacks on climate science.

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Building institutions that bend towards truth, with Clara Collier of Asterisk Magazine

Recommended as a must-read book.

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Selects: The Great Nuclear Winter Debate of 1983

Mentioned by

Tristan Harris

in relation to the playbook used by industries to delay reckoning with harmful products.

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Forever Chemicals, Forever Consequences: What PFAS Teaches Us About AI

Mentioned by

Adam Becker

when discussing the role of consensus in science and scientific consensus as one of the products that science produces.

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The Quantum Secret Einstein Tried to Warn Us About

Georg Diez

mentions there's a nice book, Merchants of Doubt. Händler des Zweifels.

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#766 - Autor Georg Diez über die Fehler in den 1990er & die Probleme der Gegenwart

Genoemd door

Rob Wijnberg

in de context van de tabaksindustrie die twijfel zaaide over de gevaren van roken.

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Slotaflevering: terugblikken en politiek powerduiden met Maite, Jesse en Rob

Mentioned by

Evan Bernstein

when discussing a quote from the book.

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The Skeptics Guide #1029 - Mar 29 2025

Mentioned by

Sean Carroll

in relation to her explanation of how libertarian politics and the fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s influenced climate change denial.

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53 | Solo -- On Morality and Rationality

Referenced by Nicole Oreskes as describing climate myths that disappear and then resurface.

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ACTUALLY It’s Global COOLING [Full Episode Unlock]

Mentioned by

Rachel Richards

as a resource for understanding how industries manipulate information, using the tobacco industry as an example.

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Sibling rivalry and how to deal with it as a parent. Also, the vaping teenager. 8

Nicole Conlan

recommends both the documentary and book, mentions the documentary shows how oil companies lied their way into financial success.

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The Climate Denier’s Mailbag

Recommended by

Josh Clark

as a book about how the tobacco industry and climate change denial are largely the result of PR.

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Selects: How Droughts Work

Mentionné par

Julien Devaureix

comme un ouvrage précédent de

Naomi Oreskes

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145🇬🇧. The Religion of the Free Market - NAOMI ORESKES (VO)

Genoemd door

Rob Wijnberg

als een voorbeeld van hoe de tabaksindustrie een debat creëerde over de vraag of roken kanker veroorzaakt.

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Slotaflevering: terugblikken en politiek powerduiden met Maite, Jesse en Rob

Mentioned by

Thomas Goorden

as a relevant resource about how industries create doubt to avoid regulation.

The corporate campaign to weaken Europe’s fight against forever chemicals

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