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{{Short description|2001 book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber}}
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'''''Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future''''' is a book written by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.<ref>{{ISBN|978-1-58542-139-8}}</ref><ref>{{OCLC|918077529}}</ref><ref name="BauerlineReview">{{cite news |last1=Bauerline |first1=Monica |title=Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (book review) |publisher=Mother Jones |date=January 2001}}</ref><ref name="JensenReview">{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Derrick |title=Would We Lie to You? (book review) |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=8 April 2001}}</ref><ref name="HonanReview">{{cite news |last1=Honan |first1=Daniel |title=The 'Media Spindustrial Complex' How Industry Bends, Shapes News and Public Opinion (book review) |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=8 February 2001|id={{ProQuest|256403842}} }}</ref> It is published by Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc. of the [[Company:Penguin Group|Penguin Group]]. The book focuses on the role experts hired by public relations firms play in quieting public fear with inaccurate or incomplete information when dangerous toxins from industrial processes are released into the environment.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Paul |title=All's safe in twists of public relations experts Authors decry manipulation to downplay dangers (book review) |publisher=Denver Post |date=4 February 2001}}</ref><ref name="KeaneyOpinion">{{cite news |last1=Keaney |first1=Patrick |title=Trust us, we're experts (opinion column) |publisher=National Post |date=5 March 2010|id={{ProQuest|330899300}} }}</ref>

An April 2001, ''Village Voice's'' review of the book says the book is "exhaustively detailed", "calmly convincing", and "light on rhetoric", warning readers that the book may induce "[[Medicine:Paranoia|paranoid]] [[Philosophy:Fatalism|fatalism]]" about corporate manipulations.<ref>http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0115/lee2.php village voice</ref><ref name="ChisunReview">{{cite news |last1=Chisun |first1=Lee |title=The flack catchers (book review) |publisher=Village Voice |date=7 April 2001|id={{ProQuest|232233625}} }}</ref> Bill Moyers of PBS said "If you want to know how the world wags, and who's wagging it, here's your answer. Read, get mad, roll up your sleeves, and fight back. Rampton and Stauber have issued a wake-up call we can't ignore."

== See also ==
* [[Biography:Mark Diesendorf|Mark Diesendorf]]
* [[Biography:Sheldon Krimsky|Sheldon Krimsky]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html Official webpage]

[[Category:Public relations]]

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