jacob graham’s Reviews > Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming > Status Update
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"In case after case, Fred Singer and Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think tanks and private corporations to challenge scientific evidence on a host of contemporary issues . . . They claimed the link between smoking and cancer remained unproven . . . that acid rain was caused by volcanoes, and so was the ozone hole . . ."
— Sep 06, 2026 12:57PM
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"Seitz, Singer, [William] Nierenberg, and [Robert] Jastrow had all served in high levels of science administration, where they had come to know admirals and generals, congressmen and senators, even presidents. They had also dealt extensively with the media, so they knew how to get press coverage for their views, and how to pressure the media when they didn't . . .
— Sep 06, 2026 01:04PM
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"A handful of men would have had no impact if no one had paid any attention, but people did pay attention. By virtue of their earlier work in the Cold War weapons programs, these men were well-known and highly respected in Washington, D.C., and had access to power all the way to the White House.
It wasn't just the Bush administration that took these claims seriously; the mass media did, too . . ."
— Sep 06, 2026 01:00PM
It wasn't just the Bush administration that took these claims seriously; the mass media did, too . . ."
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". . . They charged that the Environmental Protection Agency had rigged the science surrounding secondhand smoke. Most recently—over the course of nearly two decades and against the face of mounting evidence—they dismissed the reality of global warming. First they claimed there was none, then they claimed it was just natural variation, and then they claimed that even if it was happening and it was our fault, it didn't matter because we could just adapt to it."
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