Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes

It was a man-made risk that was being imposed without consent.

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liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124 Our society has always understood that freedoms are never absolute. This is what we mean by the rule of law. No

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But most of us want our governments to protect us from harm in many, diverse ways. We want police and firefighters to protect our homes; we want to make sure that our food supply is not contaminated and the water that comes out of our tap is clean; we want to know that drugs we buy at the pharmacy won’t kill us.

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