Categories
· Health/Science
· Business (Tobacco)
· Society
· Books
· Ethics
· Business (General)
· Lobbying
|
Jump to full article: amazon.com, 2008-04-18
Author: David Michaels
Intro: "In Doubt Is Their Product, David Michaels gives a lively and convincing history of how clever public relations has blocked one public health protection after another. The techniques first used to reassure us about tobacco were adapted to reassure us about asbestos, lead, vinyl chloride-and risks to nuclear facilities workers, where Dr. Michaels' experience as the relevant Assistant Secretary of Energy gave him an inside view.
"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature
Jump to full article »
Quotes from this article:
Doubt is our product.
Quote from a 1969 B&W memo provides the basis for the title of a book that "reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards."
|