Doubt is their product : how industry's assault on science threatens your health

Type

Book

Authors

Michaels, David

ISBN 10

019530067X

ISBN 13

9780195300673

Tags

Science and industry, Health Risk Assessment, Carcinogens, Lobbying, Industry, adverse effects, Environmental Pollution, standards, Liability, Legal, United States, Environmental health, toxicity, Public Policy, Industrial toxicology

Abstract

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.

Description

xii, 372 p. ; 25 cm

Biblio Notes

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-356) and index.

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