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Short description: 2020 non-fiction book by David Michaels
The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
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AuthorDavid Michaels
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
2020
Pagesxii, 330
ISBNISBN:978-0-19-092266-5
OCLC1089898755

The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception is a book by David Michaels that was published in 2020.

An adaptation of material from the book was published in January 2020 in Boston Review.[1]

Overview

Triumph of Doubt begins with an introductory first chapter and an overview chapter entitled "The Science of Deception." Most subsequent chapters then focus on ways that corporations have with greater or lesser success managed to obscure public understanding of scientific findings regarding specific types of products or concerns. For example, individual chapters focus on chemicals ("The Forever Chemicals," Chapter 3), concussions experienced by football players ("The NFL's Head Doctors," Chapter 4), opioids ("On Opioids," Chapter 7), climate change ("The Climate Denial Machine," Chapter 11), and sugar ("Sickeningly Sweet," Chapter 12).[2]:xi-xii

Reviews and interviews

Triumph of Doubt has been reviewed in Science Magazine,[3] Nature,[4] Undark Magazine,[5] by the Union of Concerned Scientists,[6] and in the San Francisco Review of Books (blog).[7]

Interviews with Michaels about the book have been published in Salon,[8] in the Chronicle of Higher Education,[9] and in E&E News.[10]

Editions

See also

  • Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (2008) by David Michaels

References

  1. Michaels, David (21 January 2020). "Science for Sale" (in en). Boston Review. http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/david-michaels-science-sale. Retrieved 15 February 2020. 
  2. Michaels, David (2020) (in en). The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-092266-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=hNnBDwAAQBAJ. 
  3. Kirshenbaum, Sheril (14 February 2020). "The art of misleading the public" (in en). Science 367 (6479): 747. doi:10.1126/science.aba5495. ISSN 0036-8075. Bibcode2020Sci...367..747K. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba5495. 
  4. Lawrence, Felicity (3 February 2020). "Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized" (in en). Nature 578 (7793): 28–29. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00273-4. Bibcode2020Natur.578...28L. 
  5. Aschwanden, Christie (14 February 2020). "Book Review: Probing the Corporate Manipulation of Science". Undark Magazine. https://undark.org/2020/02/14/triumph-of-doubt-book-review/. Retrieved 15 February 2020. 
  6. Rest, Kathleen (14 February 2020). "Book Review: The Triumph of Doubt Exposes the Disinformation Playbook in Action". https://blog.ucsusa.org/kathleen-rest/book-review-the-triumph-of-doubt-exposes-the-disinformation-playbook-in-action. Retrieved 14 February 2020. 
  7. Wineberg, David (27 October 2019). "Book Review: 'The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception' by David Michaels" (in en). San Francisco Review of Books (blog). http://www.sanfranciscoreviewofbooks.com/2019/10/book-review-triumph-of-doubt-dark-money.html. Retrieved 14 February 2020. 
  8. Spencer, Keith A. (2 February 2020). "The art of scientific deception: How corporations use "mercenary science" to evade regulation" (in en). https://www.salon.com/2020/02/02/the-art-of-scientific-deception-how-corporations-use-mercenary-science-to-evade-regulation/. Retrieved 15 February 2020. 
  9. Diep, Francie (24 November 2019). "Why Scientists Defend Dangerous Industries". The Chronicle of Higher Education 66 (13). ISSN 0009-5982. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Scientists-Defend/247598. Retrieved 15 February 2020. 
  10. Hiar, Corbin (2 February 2020). "PUBLIC HEALTH: Former worker safety chief targets 'science of deception'" (in en). www.eenews.net. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062254715. Retrieved 15 February 2020.