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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"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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"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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"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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" . . . Respected media outlets such as the 'New York Times,' the 'Washington Post,' 'Newsweek,' and many others repeated these claims as if they were a 'side' in a scientific debate. Then the claims were repeated again and again and again . . . by a wide range of people involved in public debate, from bloggers to members of the U.S. Senate, and even by the president and the vice president of the United States. In all of this, journalists and the public never understood that these were not scientific debates—taking place in the halls of science among active scientific researchers—but misinformation, part of a larger pattern that began with tobacco."
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